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STORY OF CAMP CHASE 



A HISTORV ('^ THE PRISON AND ITS CEMETERY, 
T /ITH OTHER CEMETERIES 

WHERE CONFEDERATE PRISON- 
ERS ARE BURIED, ETC. 



BY 

WlLiLIAM H. KNAUSS 



Nashville, Tenn., and Dallas, Tex. 

Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 

Smith & Lamar, Agents 

1906 






LIBRARY of CONGRFSS 
Two Coofe? Received 

JUN 27 1906 

. Oopyngfii Entry . 
CLAfes a! ]dt. No, 
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Copyright, 1906, 

BY 

Margaret M. Knauss. 



CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. 

Decorating the Graves — 1896. p.^gj. 

After Long Years Strangers Pay Tribute to the Valor of the South- 
ern Dead — The First Programme at Cainp -Chase — What Was Said 
That Day and Who Said It— ^A Stranger from the South Had 
Something to Say — An Afternoon Where Tenderness Reigned — 
More Than Two Thousand Flags Fluttering over Low Green 
Mounds — The Setting Sun Stoops to Kiss the Little Banners as It 
Sinks to Rest — Left Alone in Their Slumbers i 

"CHAPTER II. 

Caring for the Graves — 1897. 

A Larger Crowd — A Southern Orator, Col. Bennett H. Young, 
Addresses the People Assembled — Address of Judge David F. Pugh, 
a Northern Veteran — The Chairman Reviews the History of the 
Cemetery — The Mayor of the City Speaks Briefly — Some Letters 
from the South ; Also Cash^The Second Memorial Service over 
the Confederate Dead a Success 9 

CHAPTER III. 

The Interest Growing — 1898. 

Again Orators of the North and the South Pay Tribute to the Silent 
Dead — Patriotic Lessons Taught — The Confederate Glee Club from 
Louisville Is Present — Colonel Young, Captain Leathers, and Mr. 
Osborne the Southern Speakers, Capt. G. H, Bargar Represent- 
ing the North — Letter from a Texas Veteran — A Lady from Atlanta 
Writes Encouragingly — "You Will Be Gratefully Remembered by 
Us ; Yours for America on Land or Sea" 19 

CHAPTER IV. 

The Services of 1899. 

The Children of Avondale School Sing — Orations by Judge David 
E. Johnson, of Bluetields, W. Va., and by Gen. W. D. Hamilton — 
Tableau of Blue and Gray with Hands Clasped — An Impromptu 
Service Some Days before the Regular Decoration Exercises — The 
Southern Members of Waterworks Convention Pleased and Im- 
pressed — They Stood with Uncovered Heads — The Mystery of the 
Broken Tombstone 41 

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vi THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

CHAPTER V. 

Camp Chase in 1900. ,.^^,^ 

Ohio's Governor Prescnl at the Services at Camp Chase — He Makes 
a Wise and Patriotic Address — The Ex-Confederates Pleased with 
His Kindly Expressed Sentiments Concerning the Dust of the Lonely 
Dead — General Arnold, of Kentucky, Delivered an Eloquent and 
Touching Speech — Mrs. T. W. Rose, President of the Ladies' So- 
ciety of the Union Veteran Legion, Spoke with Much Tenderness 
— Dr. Thomas P. Shields, an Ex-Confederate of Ohio, One of the 
Speakers — What Southern Governors Said 49 

CHAPTER VL 

The Memorial of 1901. 

Arm in Arm the Men of the South and North Marched into the 
Cemetery Where Sleep the Dead of Camp Chase Prison — Com- 
mander Shields, of the Confederate Camp, and Commander Grim, 
of McCoy Post, G. A. R., Lead the Way — Children of Avondale 
School Sing — Rev. John Hewitt Delivers an Address — Hon. Emmet 
Tompkins, Then Republican Member of Congress, Delivers an 
Oration — Remarks by Rev. Howard Henderson, Ex-Confederate — 
Captain Rogers, an Ex-Confederate, Places Southern Flowers on 
Graves of the Union and Confederate Soldiers 56 

CHAPTER VH. 

The Monument Unveiled — 1902. 

What Southern Writers Who Were Present Said about the Occasion 
—The Chairman Tells Who Helped So Liberally with the Arch— 
The Oration of Governor Nash — The Reply of Judge D. E. John- 
ston, of West Virginia— The Speech of Judge D. F. Pugh— Cap- 
tain Dinkins, of New Orleans, Delivers an Eloquent Speech — The 
Story of the Colored Men — Letter from Mrs. Randolph — Invitation 
to Go to Nashville — The Monument Turned Over to the Ex-Con- 
federates — Happy Ending of the Author's Work at Camp Chase.. 62 

CHAPTER VHI. 

Odds and Ends. 

Planting Trees at Camp Chase Cemetery— An Incident of Concord, 
N. C— Confederate Dead at Gallipolis— Official Correspondence 
Concerning the Cemetery— A Few of the Many Friendly Let'.ers 
—The Return of a Confederate Flag— A Speech That Caused Com- 
ment—Insinuating Postal Cards— The Visit of Editor Cunningham 
— Visiting Camp Chase Cemetery in Winter 84 



CONTENTS. vii 

CHAPTER IX. 

Visiting the South. ,.^0^^ 

A Trip to New Orleans Mardi Gras Time — An Unlooked-For Re- 
ception — What the Crescent City Papers Said — Great Bouquets of 
Roses by the Ladies — The Confederates Present the Stranger with 
a Fine Gold Badge — Eloquent Speech of Captain Dinkins — An Edi- 
torial — Going to Nashville — A Fourth of July Event — Meeting 
Friends Both Blue and Gray — Guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Toney 
— A Remarkable Camp Fire — Well Repaid 100 

CHAPTER X. 

Camp Ch.^se in 1861. 

Once a Military Camp and Prison ; Now a Fine Farm — The First 
Prisoners — A Confederate Pictures the Daily Grind of Prison 
Life — What a Texan Remembers of Camp Chase Prison — The 
Plot to Escape — The Spies' Report — Brutalizing Effects of Prison 
Life — The Man with the Poor Memory — The Deserter and the 
Prisoner — Strother's Story — Work on Camp Chase Begun in May, 
1861 Ill 

CHAPTER XL 

Increasing Numbers. 

The Indifference of Columbus toward the Soldiers — Southern Pris- 
oners Were Not the Only Men Neglected — A Wife Accompanies 
Her Husband to Prison — Arrival of a Number of Officers — A Ken- 
tuckian Expresses Himself — What the Raw Recruit Said— The 
Long Roll Beaten — Almost a Riot 122 

CHAPTER XII. 

The Year.^ Crept Slowly On. 

From 1863 to 1865 — Gen. John Morgan and His Men — A Brief Review 
of His Famous Raid through Ohio — On the Road to Camp Chase 
— A Tennessee Judge Once a Boy Prisoner — The Boy and the 
Bowlder — A Conspiracy 129 

CHAPTER XIII. 

After Forty-Two Years. 

The Intercepted Letters Found in the Ohio State House by State 
Librarian Galbreath — Some of the Letters Photographed — Some 
Letters from Down South — List of Letters Not Used in This Vol- 
ume — History of Mrs. Clark, by Her Son, Rev. Frank P. Clark. .. . 140 



viii THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

C H A P T E R XIV. 

Johnson's Island. ,,,,^ 

A Prison Comfortable in Simimcr, hut Cold in Winter — The First 
Prisoners to Arrive at Sandusky — The Town Turns Out to See 
Them — A Sad-Faced Lad — Making a Rope of the Flag — The Chap- 
lain's Consoling Words — Letters from Johnson's Island — The Num- 
ber of Prisoners upon the Island Each Month in 1862, 1863, 1864. . 184 

CHAPTER XV. 

Stories of thk Prison in Sandusky Bay. 

Prison Rules at Johnson's Island — The Grapevine Telegraph — The 
Opinion of Whitelaw Reid — The Execution of Corbin and Mc- 
Graw — A Pathetic Letter — A Deserter Shot — Campbell, the Spy 
— Wanted Back in Prison — Adventure of Captain Gubbins — How 
Lieutenant Bowles Was Killed — A Brave Kentuckian -Calmly Meets 
His Fate 194 



CHAPTl'R XVI. 

The Great Conspiracy. 

Plan to Liberate the Prisoners on Johnson's Island — Beall Captures 
the Philo Parsons and the Island Queen — Captain Cole Fails to 
Capture the Gunboat Michigan, Guarding Sandusky Bay — The Con- 
spirators to Spike the Guns of the Land Batteries — In Face of Dan- 
ger They Weakened — Capture of Cole — How Beall Got Away with 
the Philo Parsons — The Effort to Get Canada Involved in War 
with the United States — Great Excitement at Sandusky — Warn- 
ing of the Toronto (Canada) Globe — The Trials of Beall and Bur- 
leigh — Southern Version oi the Plot 207 

CHAPTER XVII. 

A Thrilling Escape. 

Prisoners Plan to Escape — Major Winston, of North Carolina, Major 
Stokes, of Virginia, Captain McConnell. of Kentucky, and Captains 
Robinson, Davis, and Stokes, of Virginia, Scale the Wall — The 
Thermometer Thirty-Three Degrees below Zero and the Wind 
Blowing a Gale — Captain Stokes Recaptured — Making a Raid on a 
Farmer's Stable — A Troubled Dutchman — No Sleep for Sixty 
Hours— Going through Toledo, Ohio — Breaking through the Ice 
— Safe under the British Flag J25 



CONTENTS. ix 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

Plain Living at Johnson's Island. p^^j. 

The Story of LieutLiiant Cunningham — Eighteen Months a Prisoner 
at Johnson's Island — An Interesting Story Cleverly Told — The 
Lights and Shades of Prison Life — Pierson's Ten Commandments 
— Nothing in the Lord's Prayer to Cover the Emergency — Getting 
Home at Last — A Hugging Match 22,7 

CHAPTER XIX. 

Personal Stories of Camp Chase. 

Diary of Capt. A. S. McNeil— Nine Months a Prisoner at Camp Chase 
— An Unbiased Story of Prison Life — Going Home at Last — Story 
of R. H. Strother in Prison at the Same Time as Captain McNeil 
— Shooting at Prisoners — The Narrative of Lieutenant Mitchell — 
He Tells of Lieutenant Grasty's Escape — How^ Captain Herbert 
Came to Camp Chase— A Pleasant Deputy Sheriff — The Effects of 
Overeating 254 

CHAPTER XX. 

Johnson's Island Stories, New and Old. 

Incidents of the Island Prison First Told in the Confederate J\'t- 
cran — Pen Pictures of the Place in 1864 270 

CHAPTER XXI. 

A Confederate Spy in Ohio. 

Promoted from First Duty Sergeant to Major— Scouting in the Moun- 
tains—A Narrow Escape— Recruiting for the Confederate Army 
in Ohio— Meeting the Knights of the Golden Circle— Makes Colum- 
bus His Headquarters for a Time— Visits Camp Chase— A Peep 
• into the Prison — Getting Confederate Recruits through the Lines 
—The Story of Major Marlowe 274 

CHAPTER XXII. 

Getting Together. 

Some True Stories That Illustrate What Friends Americans Can Be. 
though Enemies Once — The Man Who Shot Me — Telling the Story 
of the Battle — The Captured Silverware — Drinking from the Little 
Cup in After Years — Plowing with the Yankees' Horses — A Little 
Rebel Bootblack — Hunting a New Home — A Northern Office Hold- 
er — Governor Campbell's Last Pardon 294 



X THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

C HATTER XX 11 I. 

The End at Last. p^q^ 

A Hero or a Dunce — The Story of a Spy — He Was Captured at 
Newark. Ohio — Sentenced to Be Hanged — How It Ended — One 
Hundred Dollars Reward Offered for a Prisoner — Dangers of the Ice 
Bridge — The Death of Lincoln — Colonel Hill Announced It — His 
Letter to the Sandusky Sentinel — The Money of the Prisoners in 
Bank — A Pathetic Poem — Going Home at Last — A Visit to John- 
son's Island in 1904 — The End 302 



INTRODUCTION. 

In this volume the author seeks to give to the survivors of 
the Southern army such data as may be of interest to them and 
their friends, and it is his earnest prayer that this story, however 
imperfect, may be kept somewhere in Southern homes. Southern 
societies, and by patriotic associations, to keep green the memory 
of their heroes, when they and he shall have passed into the si- 
lence. 

More than forty years ago the story began, and it is not yet 
ended, nor can it end while there are human hearts to thrill at 
deeds heroic. When there is left in this fair land not one person 
to remember or care for the mighty deeds of the sixties, or for 
the men who went down to death, will the story be concluded. 

The cemetery at Camp Chase has received regular care since 
1894. Those who went to sleep so far away from home were, 
in the main, plain, simple folk, and the world knew little about 
them. Here and there in the South a heart ached because a man 
in gray marched away from home and never returned. The 
names of most of these men were marked on boards at the heads 
of the graves, but have been destroyed by storms and by time. 
For thirty years God only has known just where they are. 

Time, the great healer, had almost ceased to dress the festering 
wounds that war had left, when He who doeth all things well 
caused Henry Briggs to place in the hands of the author a little 
paper-covered book containing the names of the Confederate 
dead in Ohio. It was not to be that their names should perish 
from ofif the earth, for the annual report of Adjt. Gen. B. R. 
Cowen, submitted to Governor Cox. of Ohio, in 1868, contained 
the list of the dead in Camp Chase. 

Prisoners of war did not die amid the roar and crash of battle, 
where soldiers go to death with heart aflame and blood on fire ; 
but, heart-sick and weary, they sank to rest far from home, far 
from shrill of fife or beat of drum. It is not the purpose of 
this volume to compare the prisons North and South. 

Prison and paradise are not synonymous terms. There was 



xii THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

suffering, there was death, where the Southern sun hlistered and 
burned in the shadeless prisons ; there were months when the cold 
blasts of the North chilled to death, and stilled the heart throbs 
of the soldiers of the South. 

A chivalrous man prefers to for^^et the things that rankle, and 
remember instead the deeds that thrill. With this idea ever in 
view, a soldier of the Union, wounded in its defense, seeks to 
tell in a simple and unharrowing manner the story of Ohio's 
military prisons, and the incidents pertaining to the care of the 
same since 1894. This story might come from some one else 
with better grace : but as the author's work is a part of its history, 
he will tell it plainly and with sincere regard for the conditions 
to all concerned. 

In 1868 business called the author to North Carolina and \'ir- 
ginia, at which time a friendship was formed between himself 
and an ex-Confederate who was acting as a guide. By compar- 
ing notes, the fact developed that both were wounded in the same 
battle — Fredericksburg. The Confederate lost a leg. Through 
a bond of the friendship then formed, we mutually agreed to as- 
sist the comrades of the other, as best we could, whenever op- 
portunity occurred. 

A few months later, while visiting the battlefields of Antietam 
and South Mountain, the writer found a graveyard where a 
number of Confederates had been buried. It was upon the side 
of a hill, and uninclosed. Having in mind the agreement with 
his Confederate friend, he hired a farmer living near by to build 
a log fence around the graves of those soldiers who had fallen 
in battle. Thus he became impressed with the belief that some 
good might be done, and, perchance, some persons be made happy 
should they learn that a stranger respected the resting place of 
their loved and lost. 

Upon coming from New Jersey to Columbus in 1893. ^^^ learned 
of the Confederate cemetery west of the city, where there are 
buried more than two thousand ex-Confederates who had died 
while i)risoners of war in Camp Chase, and that the burial place 
was in a very bad condition. The gate and gateposts of the 
stone wall inclosing the cemetery were down, the ground over- 
run with briers, bramble bushes, and weeds, and it had become a 
resort for animals. 



INTRODUCTION. xiii 

Shortly afterwards he arranged with Mr. Henry Briggs, who 
owns a farm opposite the cemetery, to have it cleaned up : and 
in the spring a few friends distributed some flowers about the 
place. 




GEN. GEORGE MOORMAN. 



During the following year (1895) efforts were made to find 
some ex-Confederates in Columbus. A meeting of some gentle- 
men was called at his ofifice, and it was agreed that we inaugurate 
a memorial service and contribute pro rata to the expense. A 
programme was arranged, and steps were taken to have the 
place grubbed and thoroughly cleaned, have the trees trimmed, 
the gate and gateposts reset, and other necessary work done. 



xiv THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

W'itliin tlirce days of the time arranged for the services the speak- 
ers all backed out, concluding that it would be unpopular and 
injure them as professional men. This action was a source of 
deep regret, but he determined to have the service and pay the 
expenses himself. All of the newspapers were visited and re- 
quested to say nothing about the matter except that services 
were to be held there, and to have their reporters present to report 
in a fitting manner what occurred. 

As tile street cars at that time ran only within a mile of the 
cemetcr\-. wagons were hired to convey the people from the 
terminus of the street railway to the cemetery. Lumber was 
sent out to build seats, and arrangements were made for com- 
fort. The result was a nice service with about fifty people pres- 
ent. The proceedings of that day are given in Chapter I. 

During the year he ascertained that Capt. W. B. Allbright, a 
Confederate, had been a resident of Columbus for several years, 
but had not let himself be known as such. He consented to join 
in the service the coming year, for which quite extensive prepara- 
tions were made, with the result that probably a hundred people 
were present. About this time five or six friends in sympathy 
with tlic cau.^e paid for some shrubbery and young trees, wliich 
were placed in the cemetery. 

While riding in a carriage with Ceu. J. 15. Gordon during one 
of his visits to Columbus the writer asked if, in his opinion, the 
Southern people would appreciate the service and care of the 
ground enough to send some flowers for the following spring 
ceremony, when with a comrade's demonstration he said: "My 
dear friend, my people in the South would be happy to have the 
pleasure of sending their choicest flowers for the purpose of 
decorating those graves. Through my .Adjutant (icneral Moor- 
man I will see that the peoj^le of the South are made acquainted 
with your desires, and you will have the flowers and the prayers 
of them all." At the proper time a request was made of Gen- 
eral Moorman, and the flowers came in large quantities for the 
service in 1897. On this occasion there were present i.ooo to 
1.500 persons. The principal addresses were made by Judge 
David F. Pugh, an ex-Union soldier, and Col. Bennett II. Young, 
an ex-Confederate. Both addresses were highly appreciated, 
and published in the newspapers here and throughout the South. 



INTRODUCTION. xv 

The writer emphasizes the fact that the newspapers of Co- 
lumbus not only treated that first meeting with great consid- 
eration, but the same attention has been given to each succeed- 
ing year on the Memorial Day at Camp Chase as to the annual 
decoration exercises over the graves of the Union dead. 

The author was subjected to much unkind criticism by his 
Northern comrades, so that this public indorsement by the press 
was very gratifying. Time, which softens the heart's bitterness 
by the harsh deeds of war, has failed to remove all the enmities 
born of that first service at Camp Chase. The author does not 
seek sympathy from his friends in the South because of this, for 
he undertook the work keenly alert to the fact that there would 
be opposition. 

On one occasion — the presentation of a floral piece — a commit- 
tee, self-constituted perhaps, sent for him to appear at the State- 
house, where meetings of the committee were being held. He 
did not go, but a member of the committee came to his office 
and proceeded to lecture him on the error of his ways, demand- 
ing to know who paid for the design in question, and that he 
desist from conducting these memorials for the Southern soldiers. 
In reply he made a few remarks expressive of his indignation, 
and then promptly left. 

Following the service of 1897 some eight or ten ex-Confederates 
in the county were found, who, with the exception of one or two, 
united with us. These thought it would injure their business to 
be known. That the graves might be shaded by trees from their 
native land, application was made to the different States in the 
South for a donation, and each State contributed ten trees, but 
unfortunately very few of them lived. 

The G. A. R. Drill Corps, the Uniform Company of \>terans, 
which had assisted year after year at Camp Chase, as at the 
Union Cemetery, firing salutes, were at last requested by the 
Adjutant General of the Department of Ohio, G. A. R. — prompted 
by certain G. A. R. men of Columbus — not to attend the Confeder- 
ate services. Colonel Coit, commanding the Fourth Regiment 
Ohio National Guard, hearing of the action, tendered a company 
of his and a regimental band for the occasion, the services of 
which were gratefully accepted. 



xvi THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Notwithstanding" the opposition, the work went on each year. 
The interest grew, the crowds came, and the people of the Soutli 
sent flowers to place upon the graves of their dead heroes. 

In 1898 the presence of the Confederate Glee Club from Louis- 
ville, Ky., added greatly to the interest of the services. Col. 
Bennett Young, of the same city, was again one of the orators 
of the occasion, and so well was he gratified that he planned to 
have presented to the G. A. R. upon the following year the 
floral design symbolic of the peace and harmony existing between 
the sections. The design, a most beautiful and expensive one, 
was ready for ]\lay 30. 

The writer attended a meeting of a joint committee in charge 
of the Memorial Day exercises at Post Hall for the purpose of 
having the design accepted and placed on the lot known as the 
"Circle." where the ritualistic services of the G. A. R. are con- 
ducted. The joint committee was in session when he arrived, 
and had drawn up resolutions condemning the acceptance of 
such an emblem. After listening to the reading of the resolu- 
tions, he asked the chairman if the sentiments expressed \vere 
those of the committee, and all answered in the affirmative. He 
then expressed disgust at their unsoldierlike action. Arrange- 
ments were then made to have the design placed in a wagon and 
follow the parade, with printed banners, telling the people of 
Columbus what it was and what it meant. This plan did not 
carr\', however, because the Ex-Soldiers and Sailors" Association, 
hearing of the action of those G. A. R. men, said: "Put that floral 
piece on the Ex-Soldiers and Sailors" lot ; we will be pleased to 
accept it."' 

Leaning against the splendid monument erected by the county 
u])on their lot the beautiful floral j^icture was placed. Prom out 
of a bed of immortelles came an arm with a sleeve of blue holding 
a flag of Our Country, and from the other side was an arm with 
a sleeve of gray extended to receive the flag. The emblem was 
one of the most elaborate floral pieces ever seen in this city, 
and was the sensation of the day. At the proper time it was 
presented to the ex-soldiers and sailors of Eranklin Count\. 
Ohio, in the following words: "You see, my comrades, this beauti- 
ful design which is the gift of Southern friends who wore the gray, 
to be placed over the graves of men who wore the blue. It is 



IXTRODVCriOK. xvu 

fit that it should be here, for the sons of the North and South 
are marching under one flag. I feel, my comrades, that the men 
who knew the least of war's hardships are the bitterest to-day. 
There are exceptions, I admit. We do not envy that man who, 
in the face of this expression of unity, seeing the grand 
uprising of the North and South for the glory and honor of 
America, can coldly turn his back upon the outstretched hand 
of his brother. In the name of the donor, my friend in the 
South. I present to you this emblem of a reunited people, wishing 
that it may be received in the spirit in which it is ofifered." 

The Ex-Soldiers' Society has selected Col. S. N. Cook to form- 
ally accept the design, who said: "We receive this most beautiful 
tokeii of a new^ and splendid era in the history of our country 
when on Northern graves lie fragrant blossoms of the South, and 
on graves of Southern soldiers rest Northern blossoms. With 
pride and thankfulness the oldest veteran organization in the city 
of Columbus, born before the Grand Army was, accepts this 
beautiful gift from brave men. If there was no other reason for 
accepting this gift than the mere fact that Fitzhugh Lee, the Vir- 
ginian, is wearing to-day a uniform of blue, and soldiers from 
North and South vie with each other in doing honor to him, we 
should accept it. We should place it where it is. and treasure it 
afterwards as a gift beyond price. The gift reminds us also that 
Gen. Joe Wheeler is in the saddle again. When I see the men 
of the South marching with steady tread under the folds of our 
glorious banner, then it is indeed a pleasure and an honor to ac- 
cept such a token of esteem from the South." 

The newspapers spoke enthusiastically of this event, and the 
only criticism came from the few who seemed to forget that they 
had fought no man in gray for over forty years. 

We turn with pleasure from this unpleasant side of the sub- 
ject to the erection and unveiling of the monumental arch, an 
event of great pleasure to the author. Elsewhere this event is 
narrated in detail. In that part of the history devoted to the year 
1902, Mr. W. P. Harrison is given credit for his generous dona- 
tion toward the arch and monument, which came unsolicited and 
unexpectedly, and for which the author will ever feel grateful. 

The monument w'ould have been erected had no generous friend 
been found, and not a dollar would have been asked or accepted 
from the South. The writer felt it a dutv that he owed his friends. 



xvili THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

as well as a testimony to the dead, for he has found in the last 
eight years that no matter where he has met a Southerner he 
met a friend. 

The unutterable loneliness and shameful disorder of Camp 
Chase Cemetery as it was when first seen by the writer moved 
his heart to pity, and he felt impelled to do what has been done, 
and the result has been that the monumenal arch was built to the 
perfect satisfaction and gratitude of the delegations from West 
\'irginia. Kentucky, and other portions of the South, and of all 
who have seen it. 

The events just related lead to a time after the ex-Confederates 
in the county had formed a Confederate Camp, and the Southern 
ladies a Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy here in 
Columbus, and this having been done, he concluded, when the 
monument was unveiled and presented to the Confederates, that 
his work was completed. 

The presentation of the monument was made by a G. A. R. 
comrade, Judge David F. Pugh. and received by an ex-Confed- 
erate Congressman. David E. Johnston, of Bluefield. W. \'a.. 
Gen. J. B. Gordon, who was to receive it. being unable to be 
present. With the presentation of the monumental arch the care 
and charge of the cemetery was turned over to the Daughters 
of the Confederacy. 

The monument was unveiled by the writer's daughter, Eliz- 
abeth May (John T.) Gamble, and IHorence Tucker (John H.) 
Winder, assisted by Mrs. David Lindsey (T. M.) Worcester. 
From the beginning his wife and children, together with Miss 
Sadie Stimmel, I\Ir. Charles Roth, and Mr. Thomas J. Davies. 
gave him constant assistance in the work. 

There was opposition to the erection of the monument, not- 
withstanding the greatly improved sentiment, and threats were 
made that if done it would be blown up. Two men were em- 
ployed to stay at the grounds during its erection, and to guard 
it at night for some ten days after the unveiling, but no one at- 
tempted to molest it. It may have been because the Governor of 
the State of Ohio, Hon. George K. Nash, had been present, 
and had made a speech full of sympathy for the occasion, or it 
may have been because of fear of the Northern soldiers guarding 
it. When the storm was most bitter; the gentle-hearted Mc- 
Kinley, at Atlanta, spoke words that well might silence the crit- 



INTRODUCTION. xix 

icism that followed my every attempt to honor the last resting 
place of the Confederate dead, and it is fitting that in this per- 
sonal chapter this splendid sentiment be repeated : "Every sol- 
dier's grave made during the unfortunate Civil War is a tribute 
to American valor; and while when these graves were made we 
differed widely about the future of the government, those differ- 
ences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms — and the 
time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling, 
tmder the providence of God, when, in the spirit of fraternity, we 
should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confed- 
erate dead." . 

The President had uttered these words in 1898. Some of the 
seeds of kindness fell upon stony places. There were some even 
in 1902 who hated the sight of that arch. 

At this point, even though good taste offending, the writer 
quotes from Circular Letter No. 86, United Confederate Veterans, 
May 20, 1898, the words of Adjutant General Moorman, pub- 
lished in the Confederate W^tcran: 

To All Commanders and Confederate Veteran Camps. 

At Camp Chase, Ohio, where 2,260 Confederate soldiers are 
buried, that noble "American," Col. William H. Knauss, a brave 
Union soldier, and his grand coworkers have designated June 
4 next as the date for Decoration Day, when ceremonies will be 
observed and flowers will be strewn over these 2.260 long-neg- 
lected graves, where rest the heroes, sleeping far away from 
homes, kindred, and loved ones. 

It is well known that the cemetery which contains the re- 
mains of these Southern soldiers was rescued from decay and 
neglect, repaired, a stone wall built around the place, trees and 
shrubbery planted, the grounds cleaned up, and an annual Decora- 
tion Day observed, through the humanity and patriotism of Govs. 
R. B. Hayes and J. B. Foraker, the golden-hearted William H. 
Knauss. Mr. Henry Briggs. a farmer living near. Capt. W. B. 
Allbright, an ex-Confederate soldier, and a few other friends. 

By order of John B. Gordon, General Comnia)ider. 

The Heaven-gifted orator, the knightly soldier, the splendid 
gentleman has gone from us. but the perfume of his good deeds 
remains to make the world sweeter. In life his hand clasped the 
writer's and somewhere and sometime our hands will clasp again. 

In telling the story of Camp Chase and Johnson's Island much 
information was secured through the courtesy of others. The 



XX THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

author has drawn Hberally upon the Confederate Veteran, Nash- 
ville, upon all of the Columbus i^apers, the Sandusky Register, 
and (itluT ( )\uo newspapers. He desires to express his gratitude 
also to Captains McXeil, Dinkins, Herbert, Lieutenant Mitchell, 
D. H. Strother. and Majors Wilson and Marlowe for intcrestins;: 
reminiscences, and Mr. C. 1>. (jalbraith, Ohio State Librarian, for 
the long^-lost letters given. The author is impressed with the idea 
that such a history as this should be given before all those who 
had a part in it were dead, and man\' Southern friends have urged 
it. It is a simple story of men who endured much, who fought 
bravely, and they who survived went back to their commands 
and fought again, and when it was all over went home — gen- 
erally speaking to desolate homes — but one rich in love and af- 
fection, if there was a Southern woman in that home. Those 
who died here went to their final rest as became brave men. 

The history of these prisons of Ohio has been gathered from 
various sources — from survivors who remember well the time 
of their captivity, from diaries kept by prisoners, and from his- 
tories of regiments, etc. 

With no thought but that of pride and admiration for the 
great American people, regarding no North or no South, but a 
land rich in memories of its brave dead, this volume is offered. 



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CHAPTER I. 

Decorating the Graves — 1896. 

After Long Years Strangers Pa}- Tribute to the Valor of the Southern 
Dead — The First Programme at Camp Chase — What Was Said That 
Day and Who Said It — A Stranger from the South Had Something to 
Say — An Afternoon Where Tenderness Reigned — More Than Two 
Thousand Flags Fluttering over Low Green Mounds — The Setting Sun 
Stoops to Kiss the Little Banners as It Sinks to Rest — Left Alone in 
Their Slumbers. 

In the Introdttction the reader was enabled to see the begin- 
ning- of an annual event, uncommon in the North. When those 
A^ho began this work shall have gone to their rest, the service 
will continue. 

Because of the uniqueness of its beginning, opposition to it 
from unlooked-for sources, and because of the warm hand-clasps 
and tender words of commendation from the South, the history 
of these events is given. The press, both North and South, have 
published columns, making the telling less difificult than if one 
told the story of this simple work from memory. Necessarily 
the author draws upon these detailed facts, and thus the friends 
of those whO' sleep at Camp Chase, Ohio, may see how the 
strangers, at last, after long years, came to pay reverence to 
their memory as American soldiers, whether or not in sympathy 
with the cause in which they were engaged. 

The first complete prograinme of exercises at Camp Chase 
Cemetery was held upon the afternoon of June 5, 1896. A small 
service was held there in 1895. 

The day was beautiful, and the little cemetery was decorated 
with two thousand two hundred and sixty American flags waving 
over the dust of mortals who nearly forty years before had 
fought bravely, during the battle storm, under the "Stars and 
Bars." 



2 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Quiet, orderly, and reverential were the fifty or more persons 
who gathered to take part in or listen to the services. Hushed 
were the voices, as though the sleeping ones might be awakened 
from their rest. 

Speaking of this occasion, the Press-Post, of Columbus, said: 

The little Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase, with its 
green, waving elm trees, its long grass rank with the richness 
of the graveyard, its birds the only creatures that until yesterday 
ever sang a hymn over the last resting place of over two 
thousand brave men, its deathlike peace — the little cemetery, with 
its long ranks of the dead, was the scene of one of the most 
remarkable events ever witnessed in this country. It was a sight 
that proved that the bitterness of war time can die away even 
with those who experienced all the heat and passion of the 
battle, who went through the long, weary marches, who lay in 
the mud of the trenches under the fire of the enemies' guns, and 
who froze or famished in dreary camps. Veterans of the Union 
army were assisted by veterans of the Southern Confederacy 
in the beautiful work of laying flowers upon the graves of two 
thousand two hundred and sixty Confederate dead who lie under 
the grass and in the shade of the trees in the stone-girdled 
cemetery. 

No scene could have been more impressive, especially to 
those who knew from experience the sadness of the fate of those 
who had given up their lives and had died in a strange country 
for that which they believed to be right. For many years the 
graves were overrun with weeds and brambles, and the cattle 
of the country w^andered over the heads of the men whose valor 
was greater than that of Spartan. With the exception of the 
towering elms, w'hich were bushes when the sleepers went to 
their final rest, only noxious plants grew there. To-day there 
are flowers and flags and women's tears. Grizzled warriors of 
the Union stood with bared heads, reverent at the graves of men 
once foes. Men who had stood guard with loaded muskets over 
these long-departed enemies paused to drop a tear and lay a 
flower full of meaning upon their graves. A few scarred ex- 
Confederates, silent, solemn, and wondering, looked on at the 
strange sight. 

The speakers' stand was a cart brought there by some 
farmer in the neighborhood; and when the hour for the begin- 
ning was reached, the Chairman. W. H. Knauss. mounted the 
cart and. after a song, delivered the following address: 

My friends and American citizens, about us and within this 
inclosure are buried American citizens, i^or many years this 
burial ground was open commons, overgrown by briers and 



DECORATING THE GRAVES— 1896. 3 

brush, until about ten years ago, when Governor Foraker in his 
message referred to it as a disgrace and unworthy of a Christian 
people. F"rom his interest in the matter the government built 
this wall and the place was cleared of brambles ; but from that 
time until last year no attention had been given to it other than 
occasionally by individuals, when Governor Hayes secured an 
appropriation of twenty-five dollars a year from the contingent 
fund to cut away the briers, bushes, etc. 

We will commence these humble exercises without apolo- 
gies, other than to say that we wish to pay respect to some 
rmknown dead who were American citizens and who died in a 
cause which they believed was right : and I ask each of you 
present not to judge or criticise our motives or actions until we 
are through. If we have done that which is unbecoming Amer- 
ican citizens, we are willing to be censured for the act of decora- 
ting these men's graves. This movement is not gotten up by 
any association or society. I take all the responsibility as a 
citizen and a soldier. 

As our Heavenly Father set for us in the sky a rainbow in 
remembrance of the storm, so our forefathers left us this beautiful 
flag, whose colors were taken from the heavens in remembrance 
of the stormy battles where they shed their blood for liberty 
and freedom — for free schools, free speech, and free ballot. I 
have been to this place a number of times, and each time I have 
said to myself: "They were American citizens, they were men, 
they had mothers and sisters, some had wives and children, all 
praying to one God and Father; and O how many a prayer 
went up that these unfortunate dead might be returned to their 
homes!" 

Alas ! the fate of war decreed otherwise, and where their 
bodies lie is in many instances unknown to their loved ones. 
There has been a patriotic revival during the past few years 
among American citizens. Societies have been formed to ex- 
pound American principles, to impress upon the young what 
it has cost to perpetuate these principles. 

Being a descendant of soldiers from Revolutionary times, my 
great-grandfather having been in that war, my two grand- 
fathers in the War of 1812, my father in the Mexican War, and 
my only brother and myself in the War between the States, I 
cannot help having respect for conscientious soldiers. I fully 
believe we should never be timid in a matter of honor or where 
an expression of our patriotism is needed. 

Therefore my conclusion is that it is not unpatriotic or un- 
American to do what we are doing here to-day. If I were in 
the South and saw an ex-Confederate do honor to an unknown 
soldier's grave, I would say with all my soul: "God bless you 
and yours forever!" 

One hundred and twenty years ago three or four thousand 




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DECORATING THE GRAVES— 1896. 5 

half-clad, shoeless, depressed, and dispirited patriots, made up 
of the then thirteen colonies, marching under the scowling De- 
cember sky, pelted by the pitiless storm of sleet and rain, crossed 
the Delaware and before daybreak drove in the British sentinels. 
The enemy had spent the night in drunkenness and revelry, but 
Washington led his tattered legions on. The commanding officer 
of the enemy and many of his men were killed and wounded, 
and a thousand were captured. The surviving British galloped 
away, leaving their allies to the mercy of their foe. If Washing- 
ton and his army had been destroyed, there would have been 
an end to the war. Victory crowned his efforts; and the battle 
O'f Trenton, measured by its results, was the decisive battle of 
the Revolutionary War. 

Who composed this army of men from the colonies? Who 




FOUR-MILE HOUSE, OPPOSITE CAMP CHASE. 



were these patriotic soldiers? Men from the North and South. 
Who was this man Washington, upon his knees in the snow at 
\^alley Forge praying to God for guidance and for victory? He 
was a Virginian and a patriot. Who were his soldiers in that 
war? Men from the North and South who fought for liberty. 
Who said: "My life you can have, but never my loyalty and my 
principles for freedom and my country?" They were American 
■citizens from the North and' the South. These dead soldiers 
lymg here should not have tried to overthrow this grand republic 
that cost such sacrifice. Though we do not seek to justify their 
cause, to place flowers on their graves is Christianlike. "Charity 
is the true spirit of Christianity." and charity prompts our acts 
to-day. These symbols of purity we offer at these lowly graves; 
these American flags are given that future generations may 



6 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

emulate the unselfish devotion of even the lowliest of these dead 
soldiers. 

At the conclusion of this address the Chairman introduced 
Gen. E. J. Pocock, who said : 

With malice toward none, with charity for all. we come here 
to-day to decorate the graves of those known only as deceased 
prisoners of war. Under the sod of this field, once a military 
prison, are buried twt) thousand and more Confederate captives. 
Sickness and disease carried them to a grave in this inclosure, 
known in history as Camp Chase. The soldiers here buried 
have gone to where no man returns. In meeting here these men 
are not enemies, but brothers of a common country blood. They 
took up arms against this grand government. The government 
conquered, the South is reconciled; we are a common country 
and common fellow-men. For a moment let us forget the battles 
of Stone River, Chickamauga, Nashville, Gettysburg. Antietam, 
the Wilderness, the sieges of Vicksburg and Petersburg. Let us 
forget the cry of "'< )n to Richmond!" the march to the sea, and 
the thought of Andersonville and Libby. Let us think of the 
unknown dead lying here, of the mothers, wives, and children 
who mourn their loss, and of the homes made desolate by the 
cruel fate of war. These men died for a cause that we thought 
was wrong, but they gave up their lives believing they were right 
in their cause. To-day we are to think of them as the brave men 
who fought on many blood}- battlefields, as the men in Pickett's 
charge at Gettysburg and in Cleburne's and Cheatham's charges at 
Franklin. This hour we arc to forget the past and think of the 
sad hearts who in the many years since the war have mourned 
for their dear ones who lie here in unknown graves. 

Rev. Dr. T. G. Dickson, pastor of tlie King Avenue Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, was called from the audience. The 
Doctor had not been in either army, being a mere boy during 
the war. After making some appropriate remarks, he closed 
by saying: "May the roots of the tree of Liberty entwine the 
bowels of the earth and its branches tower among the clouds." 

Gen. Thomas E. Powell, who enlisted as a boy si.xteen 
years old, v/as present and was called unexpectedly to say some- 
thing. He said that he was glad to join in this tribute to his old 
foes. He was glad to see the spirit exhibited on l)oth sides. 
Peace had brought its blessings, and the men of the South were 
as loyal after the war as the men of the North. Hie General 
spoke of the Cuban struggle for independence, and said that if 
it became necessary Ohio and \'irginia would combine and send 



DECORATING THE GRAVES— 1896. 7 

enough men to the field to estabhsh the independence of the 
brave Httle island. He considered this occasion second in im- 
portance as an indication of the good feeling between the North 
and the South only to the mingling of the blue and the gray 
at the Gettysburg meeting. 

"America" was sung by all present, led by Mr. Nolan. Then 
Col. S. N. Cook was called out. He told of his expe- 
rience as a guard at Camp Chase, of his suffering in Southern 
prisons, and of acts of kindness done him by Confederate 
soldiers. He told of his boyish captor and the boy's wish that 
the war would end, that he might see his home once more. He 
said: "I am only fifteen, and I am so tired of this fighting and 
marching all the time. My mother would shut the door in my 
face if I went home before the war is over — unless I am 
wounded." 

"This was in 1862, at Harper's Ferry, Va.," the speaker 
continued, "and I wonder if he is lying asleep here now, or did 
he at last get home? It was a long- road from Harper's Ferry 
to Appomattox." 

The services were about to be concluded, when a fine- 
looking, elderly gentleman, with a snow-white mustache, an 
imperial of the Southerner, stepped forward and said with marked 
accents of the South: "I beg your pardon, sir, but may I say 
something?" He was asked his name, but at first declined to 
give it, until a prominent railroad man and a friend of his intro- 
duced him as a Mr. W. H. Gardner, a business man of Union 
City, Tenn. Mr. Gardner said he came to the service as a 
Southern man. He had fought for more than four years in the 
Southern army, and he wanted to thank these men of the 
Northern army for this demonstration. Politicians had tried to 
make the South believe that there was bit-terness in the North 
against that section, but he knew better and so did the other 
Southern people. He wished that the mothers of the brave boys 
who slept in that cemetery could look down and witness the 
magnificent tribute paid them by men who fought against them 
and won. The war was over, and all were proud to know that 
Ulysses S. Grant was an American citizen. So were all proudi 
of the glory of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. He was 
glad to be among such people as he had met there. He would' 
carry back with him most pleasant recollections of his short 



8 ■ THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

sojourn in the capital of Ohio, and he would devote himself to 
telling his neighbors of the touching tribute paid to the Southern 
dead. Mr. Gardner said that it was the first speech that he 
had ever made in his life, but he felt impelled to express his 
r.ppreciation of this beautiful action. At the close of his remarks 
he was trembling like a little girl. The veterans of the armies 
of Grant and Lee crowded around to shake his hand, and he 
received an ovation. 

Everybody joined in singing the doxology, and Dr. Dickson 
pronounced the benediction. 

Some of the incidents of that day and the reminiscences that 
occasion revived are worth telling. Some of the veterans present 
remembered the story of one marked grave. Just within the 
shadow of the inclosure stood a simple stone on which was a 
plain inscription telling that the body that had moldered in 
the earth beneath was that of George Rane}', who was born in 
Livermore, K}-. There was never a better exemplification of the 
honors of the war in which brothers fought against brothers. 
George Raney was a Southern sympathizer, a believer in the 
greatness of the State over the Nation. His brother loved the 
Hag of the Union and enlisted to defend it. George was wounded 
and made a prisoner of war. He was brought to Camp Chase. 
His brother was there as a Union soldier and had to stand guard 
over him. But blood was thicker than water. All that brother 
could do Jor brother was done, but the boy in gray was dying. 
The struggle was over — only peace now. The simple shaft 
standing to-day was the tribute of love — the Blue and the Gray. 

!Many lingered in the grounds until the sun was far down the 
western sky — lingered and talked in subdued tones. The birds 
ceased wondering at the thousand little ilags which grew so 
suddenly on the low mounds, and began their evening songs of 
praise. The cattle in the fields were going home as the last par- 
ticipant in the services turned away. The leaves upon the elms 
were whispering as though something unseen was asking what 
these flags and flowers meant. It meant much to one man who 
is yet thankful. 

So closed the first public ceremony for the Confederate dead 
at Camp Chase. Nature smiled upon it all, the day had been 
perfect, and the sun as it sank behind a slow-rising cloud 
kissed tenderly the waving flags. 



CHAPTER II. 
Caring for the Graves — 1897. 

A Larger Crowd — A Southern Orator, Colonel Bennett H. Young, Ad- 
dresses the People Assembled — Address of Judge David F. Pugh, a 
Northern Veteran — The Chairman Reviews the History of the Ceme- 
tery^The Mayor of the City Speaks Briefly — Some Letters from the 
South; Also Cash — The Second Memorial Service over ihe Confeder- 
ate Dead a Success. 

There is of necessity some similarity in such services as these 
iTiemorial events, but it will interest those for whom this volume 
is written. 

The preceding chapter relates at length the details of that 
Iirst decoration. Through the newspapers the South learned that 
there were Union soldiers who were pleased to show a gentle 
courtesy to the dead. In the introductory chapter mention was 
made of the fact that there was an unpleasant side to these 
events — the criticism of friends and comrades. But when one 
has done as conscience dictates, prompted by the charity taught 
bv the lowly Nazarene, the criticisms fall harmless. One can 
easily forget the unpleasant side wdien he reads the letters from 
warm-hearted friends that he has iiOt and possibly will never see 
on earth. 

Many of these letters will be reproduced here, that the writers 
may know that the wastebasket did not receive them. 

To-day Confederate comrades are performing the work begun 
b\ the Union soldier who tells this story. 

When the time came to prepare for the next decoration services 
there were many to assist. Those who took part in the services 
of 1896 were men unknown to the people of the North or South, 
or, for that matter, to the public at large of Columbus. 

At the 1897 memorial, however, a brilliant Southern orator was 
present, and thrilled the assembled multitude with his impas- 
sioned eloquence; also a distinguished jurist, a Past Post Coin- 
mander and Past Department Commander of the G. A. R., de- 
livered an address at once interesting and able. The Southern 



CARING FOR THE GRAVES— 1897. ir 

soldier was Co!. Bennett H. Young, of Kentucky, and the North- 
ern soldier was Judge David F. Pugh, of Columbus. The exer- 
cises were held at Camp Chase Cemetery June 6; and again, as 
on the year before, nature was benign and the day was as fair as 
the occasion was pleasing. At the first service the flowers were 
from the lawn and gardens of Columbus and from the dooryards 
of the farmers living near by, but in 1897 there came loads of 
flowers from the South. The people of the South as well as 
our home citizens became interested in the almost forgotten 
graves — graves of the dead so long asleep here. So many were 
the questions asked, and so few seemed to remember anything 
about Camp Chase Cemetery, that the following facts were gath- 
ered, some of which have been incidentally mentioned, but being 
a part of the exercises of that day, they are here presented. 

The land was leased by the government during the war and 
continued to April 23, 1879, when it was bought by the govern- 
ment and described as the Confederate cemetery formerly occu- 
pied by the Camp Chase rebel prison. At the close of the war 
the barracks were torn down and the old lumber used to build a 
fence around the cemetery. 

There was a wooden headboard with name and number of 
company. State, and date of burial inscribed, placed at each grave. 
Subsequently the government replaced this with a substantial 
plank, with the same inscription, but in a few years all decayed. 
Eventually, because of neglect, the ground became a bramble 
patch. 

When Ex-President Hayes was Governor, Mr. Henry Briggs, 
a farmer in the neighborhood, was employed to clean up and take 
care of the cemetery and to be paid $25 per }ear out of the 
contingent fund. This was continued until Mr. Bishop was 
elected Governor, when he ordered it stopped. The place became 
a wild waste again until Hon. J. B. Foraker became Governor. 
He then caused Adjt. Gen. x\xline to correspond with the general 
government and explain the condition it was in and the disgrace 
it was to the State, urging that it be given attention. The action 
resulted in an appropriation sufficient to build a substantial stone 
wall around Camp Chase Cemetery and an iron fence around 
the Confederate burial ground at Johnson's Island. 

A large bowlder was procured and bears the inscription : "2,260 
Confederate soldiers of the war 1861-65 buried in this inclosure."" 



THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



There were from Virginia, 337; Kentucky, 158; Tennessee, 239 
Alabama, 431; Texas, 22; Georgia, 265; South CaroHna, 85 
North Carolina, 85; Arkansas, 25; Mississippi, 202; Florida, 62 
Maryland, 9; Missouri, 8; Louisiana, 52; and unknown, about 




HON. J. L. JUKAKEK. 



280. Of these, 135 were buried in the City Cemetery, southeast 
of Columbus, and afterwards removed to this inclosure. 

At Camp Dcnnison, near Cincinnati, there are buried 116 Con- 
federate soldiers — from Alabama, 7; Arkansas, 2; Mississippi, 4; 
Texas, 5; Louisiana, 11 ; Tennessee, i ; and unknown. 36. Many 
of these were taken home by their people, and the others were 
brought to Camp Chase. 

At Johnson's Island (licrc are burii'd jof) Confederate soldiers — 



CARING FOR THE GRAVES— 1897- 13 

from Alabama, 19; Arkansas, 16; Virginia, 20; Georgia, 12; 
North Carolina. 17; Louisiana, 3; Mississippi, 16; Tennessee, 20; 
Missouri, 5 ; Kentucky, 7; South Carolina, 4; Florida. 5 ; Choctaw 
Cavalry, 3 ; John Dow, from Pulaski, Ohio, a citizen ; and un- 
known, 57 — making a grand total in Ohio of two thousand five 
hundred and eighty-two. 

With the work last year you are all familiar ; the newspapers 
gave us credit as Americans doing honor to our great country. 
I would like for you to read some of the many letters received 
from the friends and relatives of those buried here. I will give 
a few extracts from a letter received from Gen. George Moorman, 
of New Orleans, La., Adjutant General of the Confederate or- 
ganization : 

It will be a revelation to many, and will come in the nature 
of a surprise and benediction, that, while kindred and loved ones 
are scattering flowers over the graves of their dead on Southern 
soils, strangers — aye, our former foes — are decorating with 
spring's choicest flowers the graves of our known and unknown 
dead who sleep upon Northern soil, so far from home and kin- 
dred., but who, as yoii justly say, will always live in history as 
patriots. God bless you and Gov. J. B. Foraker and Mr. Henry 
Briggs, and all honor to the memory of Ex-President Hayes, 
for the noble Christian spirit you have displayed in the preserva- 
tion of these neglected graves of the dead from everv Southern 
State ! 

All that was said that day cannot be reproduced, but the story 
of the occasion would not be complete if passages from the ad- 
dresses of Colonel Young and Judge Pugh were omitted. Colonel 
Young said : 

We are gathered this afternoon to contemplate one of the 
sequences to the happenings of that crucial period in human 
history. I should be wanting in a conception of the proprieties 
of this occasion if any reference were made to the cause of that 
great struggle upon which the people of the North and South 
entered at that hour. These braves over which you are here to 
scatter these beautiful flowers — heaven's sweet messengers — are 
peaceful but eloquent witnesses of the awful sacrifice the war 
entailed. The struggle lasted fifteen hundred, days, the deaths 
from all causes averaged three hundred every twenty-four hours. 

In the South, whence these dead warriors came, there were no 
exempted communities and but few unstricken households, and 
the tidings from the front came freighted with woe and sadness. 
Every breeze that sighed in the trees was a requiem for some 



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Tim STORY OP CAMP CUASE. 



one's dead, and every rnstle of the wind among the pines was a 
mourning song for that Southern land. If we had some quantity 
by which we could measure grief, or figures by which we could 
■calculate the worth of sobs or the value of woman's tears, what 






COL. BENNETT H. YOUNG. 



■countless treasures the people of America could lay aside as 
the possession of those who bore the trial of the war of the 
sixties! 

The scene which we witness here to-day in the great State of 
Ohio, which also made tremendous sacrifice in the war and gave 
much of its best and noblest blood to maintain the Federal 
cause, has but few parallels in the history of the world. It is 



CARING FOR THE GRAVES— 1897. 15 

-nearly thirty-four years since, as a prisoner of war, I was con- 
fined in Camp Chase, and at the moment I recall with vivid 
recollection the surroundings where several hundred Confed- 
erates were summoned from the inclosure for transportation to 
Camp Douglas, at Chicago. 

We had come in a few months to realize some of the most dis- 
tressing phases of war. The excitement, commotion, and the din 
of a great war then encompassed the city on every side, and the 
uppermost thought in every mind was the prosecution of hostili- 
ties and the enforcement of Southern submission. 

That great contest, the most stupendous the world ever saw, 
is ended. There are none but freemen in this great land. The 
shackles of the slaves have been broken, and the principles 
for which the Federal army fought have prevailed. But though 
Federal armies triumphed and the doctrines maintained by the 
North have become the accepted law of the land, yet the mag- 
nanimity and the humanity of a few people remain untouched 
and undimmed, and I defy human history to produce a record 
of an event similar to this. 

Surely there can be no higher testimonial to republican insti- 
tutions or to the breadth and nobleness of American manhood 
and womanhood than that I, as- one who fought those you 
loved and sent to do battle for your cause, should on this beauti- 
ful afternoon find yO'U decorating the graves of those who op- 
posed you and listening to the kindly words which I speak at 
the sepulchers of departed comrades. 

It would be untrue to the great Confederate host whom I 
represent if there were expressions of sorrow or regret for the 
loyalty and faithfulness of the Southern people to their section 
in that conflict; but it would be equally untrue to the highest 
sentiments of a brave and chivalrous people if I did not with 
the most grateful words and with the highest admiration and 
profoundest gratitude ofifer sincerest praise and unmeasured 
thankfulness for such magnanimity to the Southern dead. . . . 

They made the costliest sacrifice man can make for any cause, 
and the mournful fact that few who loved them have come to 
w^eep at their sepulchers or place fresh flow'ers on their graves 
pleads with irresistible eloquence the generosity of those with- 
in whose gates they died and so sadly found a place of burial. 
Somewhere in the stricken land whence they came loving hearts 
mourn their loss. There are vacant chairs that will never be 
filled, there are firesides which will never be the same, because 
these warriors never will return, and there are those who will 
love on in silence and in tears until the end. 

The mothers who mourn these sons here buried in your midst, 
the sisters who weep for the return of brothers who here went 
•down to the oblivion of unknown sepulcher, and all who long 
for the sieht of vanished forms and the sounds of silenced 



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voices, which found the end in these Confederate graves, will 
rise up and call you blessed, and somewhere in the register of 
heaven there will be a place to record the gracioiisness and 
mercifulness of these unselfish and benignant acts. 

At the conclusion of his oration Colonel Young unfolded a 
faded gray jacket and recited two verses of the touching poem. 




JUDGE DAVID F. PUGH. 



"The Jacket of Gray," and when he had finished the entire audi- 
ence broke forth in one great shout. 

Space forbids and the reader would doubtless weary if all the 
speeches of all the years were reproduced in this volume, so it 
is that only portions of even such excellent addresses as those 
of Colonel Young and Judge Pugh are given. 

Judge Pugh on this occasion said : 

The poverty of human language is such that the heroism of 



CARING FOR THE GRAVES— 1897. 17 

both Union and Confederate soldiers cannot be described. They 
fought honorably and died honorably. These men whose graves 
are being decorated were not victors: their cause failed, but their 
failure was a priceless blessing to both South and North. Both 
Blue and Gray can clasp hands and rejoice over that common 
victory. 

The whole land was made to blush with blood and was 
drenched with tears ; peace, happiness, and joy fled from thou- 
sands of firesides ; the land was filled with cripples ; the wail of 
the orphans crying to heaven and the moans of the widows 
saddening the earth were over all the land. 

These were the immediate results of the war. But. in obedi- 
ence to the great law of compensation, labor was emancipated, 
our prosperous activities quickened and deepened, the energy 
and skill which had been used in destructive war were turned 
into peaceful and constructive industries, making a splendor of 
national progress which was unparalleled. It is doubtful if the 
four years of blood and unspeakable anguish were not, after all, 
more noble and glorious than have been the thirty succeeding 
years of peace. 

It is honorable to co-me here and decorate the graves of these 
men. It is convincing evidence that the Union in its sublimest 
significance is established when such events as this occur. 

Carrying two wounds made by Confederate bullets, I am 
perfectly willing that their graves may be decorated, and even 
to participate in it when their survivors are not numerous enough 
to do it. I am willing to admit that their heroism is a part of 
our national heritage. I am willing that their survivors or ad- 
mirers may erect monuments to perpetuate their memories. I 
am willing that their surviving comrades may be elected to as 
high an office as Vice President of the United States. I am will- 
ing on proper occasions to meet with them and celebrate the 
valor of both the Blue and the Gray. I am willing to join in 
prayer to our Heavenly Father that he will watch over and bless 
the veterans of both armies. This sort of fraternal forbearance 
and generosity is, in my humble judgment, one of the surest 
guarantees of stability for the future of our common country. 

Mayor Black spoke briefly and recited the poem entitled "The 
Blue and the Gray." 

Chaplain DeBruin pronounced the benediction, and the second 
memorial service or Confederate Decoration Day at Camp Chase 
was near the end and but little else was said. 

The voice of an officer dressed in blue was heard to say : 
"Ready ! Aim ! Fire !" Captain Bidwell's company of the 
Fourteenth Infantry, Ohio National Guard, firing the salute. 
2 



1 8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

(Later, when the war with Spain came, tliis company went with 
its regiment to the front, and there and since has been known 
as the Fourth Ohio.) Then, when the sun was low, there came 
peaHng forth that most plaintive call on bugle: "Lights out!" 
Long ere this the South knew what had been done the year 
before; and as the crowd left, the odor of Southern flowers fol- 
lowed them as blessings follow righteous deeds. 

That the letters received in response to notices sent to Confed- 
erate camps by direction of General Gordon may be fully under- 
stood I will state that I believed that the veterans of the Confed- 
eracy, with hearts as liberal as they were brave, might wish to 
aid in this work, and through Adjutant General Moorman the 
matter was explained to the various Camps, and the responses 
showed the unanimity of sentiment which prevailed throughout 
the South. 

From the letters received each year it will be seen that the ex- 
Confederate has not ceased to remember that his Northern 
friends wished to pay loving tribute to his comrades so long 
asleep. 

The statement of receipts and expenditures for 1897 shows 
thirty-two Camps and individuals responding, and the list of ex- 
penses shows that they responded to some purpose. Amount re- 
ceived, $142.50; amount expended, $145.30. 

In a great scrapbook all the letters received are filed, and when 
this story has been told they will be there — there to remain until 
the work is done and the laborer has gone to his rest. All item- 
ized receipts and expenses were sent to George Moorman, Adju- 
tant General of the United Confederate Veterans, and The Con- 
federate Veteran, published at Nashville. Tonn. 



CHAPTER III. 
The Interest Growing — 1898. 

Again Orators of the North and the South Pay Tribute to the Silent 
Dead — Patriotic Lessons Taught — The Confederate Glee Club from 
Louisville Is Present — Colonel Young, Captain Leathers, and Mr. Os- 
borne the Southern Speakers, Captain G. H. Bargar Representing the 
North— Letter from a Texas Veteran — A Lady from Atlanta Writes 
Encouragingly — "You Will Be Gratefully Remembered by Us; Yours 
for America on Land or Sea." 

JV el come. 

Here's to the Veterans of the South. 

They fought, it is true, in gray ; 
But the heart goes out in the word of mouth 

To greet them in love to-day. 

The strife is ended, and now we stand, 

United in love's sweet thrall ; 
And we look aloft, as the hand clasps hand, 

To the one flag over us all. 

— Cohimhiis Disf^afch. 

On Saturday, June 4, 1898, there was held the annual decora- 
tion service at Camp Chase Cemetery. Col. Bennett H. Young 
came again and was inost heartily welcomed by both Blue and 
Gray. Those who had heard his eloquent and patriotic address 
the year before wished to hear the music of his voice again. 

Ex-Gov. Robert Taylor, of Tennessee, came also and delivered 
a most feeling address. With Colonel Young came the Confed- 
erate Glee Club of Louisville, Ky., which organization attracted 
a great deal of attention both from the public and the 
press. Capt. John H. Leathers, of Louisville, was also present, 
and spoke with great earnestness and feeling. 

The chief addresses were by Colonel Young, of Louisville, and 
Capt. Gilbert H. Bargar, of Coluinbus. Each of these gentleinen 
fought in the war of 1861-65, Colonel Young with the South and 
Captain Barger on the side of the North. 



2 2 THE STORY OT CAMP CHASE. 

(Inly one sentiment prevailed tlirouj^h the entire oceasion — the 
dead were honored as men who fouf^ht hravelw and by Americans 
was their bravery recotj^nized. In recor(lin.c^ the events of that 
occasion it is fittin"' to quote from the Press-Post of June 5 the 
sentiments uttered so happily in keepini^ with the day : 

There may be found within the pai^^es of fiction a more thrillinp^ 
scene than that witnessed at Camp Chase yesterday afternoon 
when the veterans who wore the blue stood side by side with 
the veterans who wore the gray, and strewed flowers upon the 
graves of the unknown dead buried at Camp Chase, yet in 
reality such another beautiful picture will hardly ever be wit- 
nessed. 

To those who stood by the graves of the known and unknown 
Southern dead, and saw the battle-scarred soldier of the Xorth 
slowly and reverentially advance to the little green-covered 
mounds and tenderly lay upon them garlands of roses or fresh 
and fragrant cut flowers, there was a lesson engraved upon their 
minds that the ravages of time can never erase. It was the act 
of a hero to the memory of a fallen and defeated foe ; an acknowl- 
edgment to his Southern brother, whom he respected for his con- 
victions and honored for the bravery he displayed in oft'ering his 
life for what he considered was right. 

From the sunny Southland came the men who had fought while 
wearing the gray and against the glorious old flag to lay upon 
the silent sepulcher of their fallen brother and comrade a token 
of remembrance in the shape of a floral offering and live over in 
memory the terrible scenes of war and conflict through which 
they had passed side by side with those who fell on Xorthern 
soil, and w'hose ashes repose in Xorthern dust far from the land 
they loved. 

Soldiers, your brothers in arms and kindred by birth, it is 
true, rest far from home ; but their graves are not neglected, nor 
are they permitted to go unwatched and unattended. The men 
of the Xorth were your foemen during the dark days of war. 
when brother was arrayed against brother and father did battle 
against son ; but all feeling of animosity and revenge has long 
since been buried, and to-day they are your brothers in all that 
sacred name implies, and as years roll by and seasons come and 
go the little green mounds in Camp Chase, where your de*id are 
sleeping their last long and eternal sleep, will each year be dec- 
orated by the hands of the children of the men who fought your 
dead in honorable warfare. The graves of your loved ones are 
in the keeping of men and women of the Xorth whose pleasure 
it will be to each year visit their lonely and narrow habitations 
and, as the song birds sing their carols from the treetops, deposit 
on those graves flowers pure and sweet, and tenderly care for 
them. 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 1898. 23 

To those who journeyed from the South to be present at the 
beautiful ceremonies held at Camp Chase no words are necessary 
to remind them of the lesson taught by the single act of strewing 
the graves with flowers. They are silent witnesses to the act 
declaring that in the Northern breast there remains no sectional 
hatred ; that all grievances of the past were buried in the graves 
of the heroes whose little cells were covered with flowers, and 
that no more shall there be heard, North or South, that this is a 
divided country. It was a symbol that there is no North or 
South, but that we are all a united and solid country now and 
forever. 

With what feelings of pride and gratification must those people 
of the South have turned from the graves of the Southern dead, 
realizing that their loved ones were in the tender care of friends 
and that hands which at one time were hostile to them will 
each year cover these lowly mounds with nature's offerings and 
moisten the gift with a tear. Such scenes as that witnessed yes- 
terday are the little oases in the desert of life, and serve to make 
all happier and more content. 

The Cohinihus Dispatch on that occasion said: 

The taking part in the exercises, not alone in Columbus, but in 
all places where there are buried Confederate soldiers, by the 
boys in blue is not considered by either the Blue or the Gray 
as the sacrificing of thought or conviction as to the issues of the 
war. 

By recognizing in this manner the bravery of the dead, they 
gladden the heart of many a Southern man or woman who knew 
and loved these men in life. Such deeds knit closer the bonds 
of unity between the North and the South. Particularly at this 
time is the act of to-day significant, when the boys of the North- 
land and the Southland are standing shoulder to shoulder under 
one flag fighting for a common cause. Think of it a moment — 
Michigan and Georgia in the same brigade; Illinois and Florida 
in another; a Confederate General commanding a corps and the 
boys from the North envious of those so fortunate as to be in 
his command. The whirligig of time works wonders which are 
hard to understand, but in this day and age the fights are all 
toward harmony and peace ; the soldiers of the two sections long 
ago learned that the war is over, and the exhibition of to-day 
was only a manifestation of that return of peace at which all the 
world wonders. 

Thus it will be seen that papers differing politically were pleased 
to express upon one subject the same sentiments. In no other 
land could this happen — and if we linger long over these scenes, 
who but a soured pessimist can complain, so full of peace and 



24 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

joy wore they — and to-day these scenes and memories, to an Amer- 
ican who loves his country, are inexpressibly beautiful. Without 
hindrance of nature or fault of man the profj^ramme was carried 
out as planned, and, as was the case the year 1)efore, the entire 
event was interesting. 

At two o'clock the Chairman called the assembly to order and 
in concluding his remarks said: "We may shout, 'Blow, bugler, 
blow !' but the shrillest note can never, no never, again call the 
matchless armies of Lee and Grant to carnivals of death." 

The programme proceeded as follows : Song, "My Country, 
'Tis of Thee," by the Confederate Glee Club of Louisville, Ky. ; 
prayer by Rev. John Hewett, an ex-Confederate, pastor of ?t. 
P'aul's Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio. This praver. rich in 
its tenderness, was as follows : 

O God. who art everywhere and over all. the same yesterday 
and to-day and forever ; the Creator of all nations, the Father of 
all families, and the Friend of all enemies ; as we stand by the 
graves of soldier brothers we lift up our souls to Thee and invoke 
Thy spirit of love to direct and rule our hearts. 

Remembering Thy great goodness to us as a nation, we repent 
of the sins of former days which brought us in fratricidal strife. 
We forget the heat of anger which raged in the hearts of men 
of a common blood in a common country and threatened our na- 
tional ruin, and here in the presence of the living and the dead 
we lift our minds in united prayer and thanksgiving to our com- 
mon Father and God. 

Beneath the shadow of years that are past we behold to bless 
the outstretched hand of a power divine bestowing love for the 
healing of our nation's wounds, causing the Blue and the Gray 
to blend in harmony with a will divine in loyalty to a common 

O God. we thank Thee for this revelation of national unity 
and human fraternity which Thou hast made, and we pray Thee 
to give it the quality of permanence ; and in token of the sin- 
cerity of our gratitude we here clasp hands over the graves of 
our American brothers and dedicate ourselves anew to the service 
of Thee, our common Father, and of this, our common country. 
Let this occasion be, indeed, a true Mohanism — a place of the 
meeting of two hosts ; not merely of two hosts — the living and the 
dead — but of two hosts that once were enemies, but now are 
friends, whose spirit now as one beholds the face of our Father 
which is in heaven. Having come here as a representative of 
the Blue and the Gray to strew flowers upon these graves in lov- 
ing memory of those who counted not their lives dear unto them- 



THii /\ii:h'iiST i;kc)irixa—i89S. 25 

selves In the defense of disputed rights, may the varied and min- 
gled fragrance which these flowers shed abroad ascend to 
heaven as the incense of the fraternal feeling which fills our 
breasts and claim a blessing for our united country ! In the. far- 
away homes from which our brothers came to find their graves 
here lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance, and let the peace 
of God which passeth all understanding settle and gladden the 
souls whose longing eyes look for the day when there shall be 
a restitution of all things and a union of hearts and of lives which 
neither war nor death can ever dissolve. 

O Thou who maketh men to be of one mind in a house, put 
far away from us all pride and prejudice and all causes of dissen- 
sion and discord, that our land may bring forth that increase of 
truth and justice whereby all nations of men shall be made to live. 
To all who sigh for freedom grant that we may be the instrument 
in Thy hands for the fulfillment of their desires now on this 
earth and hereafter in the new and permanent glory of heaven. 

Hear our united prayers also in behalf of our soldier brothers, 
North and South, who in the service of our country and in the 
cause of humanity and freedom go forth against the enemies of 
both. Give them faith, courage, and endurance, patience, gentle- 
ness, and obedience. Preserve them in the midst of the tempta- 
tions of the camp and of the field, from the perils of the ocean 
and of the land, from the pestilence that walketh in darkness and 
the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. Keep them under 
the shadow of Thy wing and restore them to their homes in 
safety. And so such as may fall in battle or by sickness do Thou, 
O Lord, graciously grant the preparation of repentance unto 
eternal life, where the fiowers of love are forever strewn and 
never fade or change ; through the infinite love and merits of the 
Saviour of all men, and unto Tlfee shall be the praise forever and 
ever. Amen. 

Song, "Rest, Comrade, Rest," by Confederate Glee Club. 
Colonel Young was then introduced, and spoke as follows : 

Friends and fellow-countrymen, we have come from the South- 
land to spend this day with our dead ; and narrow must be 
the heart which would limit our love, our praise, our honor for 
these, our comrades, who sleep so far away from their homes in 
unmarked and unknown graves. 

More than a third of a century has elapsed since the last grave 
was opened for the sepulcher of a Confederate soldier at Camp 
Chase ; and during this period, with one exception, none have 
come from the homes of these dead to lay a flower on the sod 
that covers their ashes, to ofifer prayer for those who were bereft, 
or to speak generous words of those who, isolate and separate, 
found their last resting place here. 



28 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

We Confederates at this hour would be unworthy of our man- 
hood if we did not recognize with j:^rateful tribute the kindness 
and nobleness of those who. thoug'h opposed to us in contiict, 
unite with us in this day in these simple and beautiful ceremonies 
which bespeak in wonderful eloquence the victories of peace. 

It hath been said that peace hath her victories no less re- 
nowned than those of war; and this victory of human kindness, 
human sympathy, and human generosity, which has been manifest- 
ed on this day and at this hour by the people of Columbus, sur- 
passes in grandeur and glory the victories of the war. 

The passions and prejudices of the great struggle in which 
on one side a nation's integrity and the freedom of more than 
three millions of people were involved, and on the other side the 
defense of homes and firesides and a nation's life, are all blotted 
out and rememberec;! no more ; and you come as citizens of a 
great nation, forgetting the past and looking only to the future, 
and in this magnanimous and splendid way to show true chivalry 
and true humanity. 

There is no heart in all the Southland to-day that does 
not go out in affection, in admiration, and in thankfulness to you. 
people of Columbus, who have thus again remembered our Con- 
federate dead ; and I repeat : Of all the messages that were 
ever sent from one people or section to another, this which you 
this day send to those who have died here — that you are keeping 
watch over these sepulchers and keeping green these graves — is 
the sweetest and most grateful. 

In this narrow inclosure sleep heroes. There are no cowards 
here. They were men who were worthy not only of the countr}-. 
but of the age in which they lived, and with unselfish patience, 
unfaltering fortitude, and magnificent courage laid their all upon 
what they believed to be the altar of right. 

The world looks with wonder and admiration upon the soldiers, 
both North and South, who made (Gettysburg famous as one of 
the most momentous of the world's battles. No man who has 
the heart of a soldier or the impulse of a freeman could fail to feel 
admiration for those Confederates who on that July day charged 
up the heights of Gettysburg, and who, amid shot and shell, never 
faltered in the discharge of duty. There were heroes meeting 
heroes on the crest of that hill, and the men who gave the shock 
and the men who received the shock command alike reverence 
and plaudits. Some of those who fought there rest here. There 
are men slee])ing death's sleep in this inclosure who made splendid 
the glories of Cold Harbor, and who, like some grand and mighty 
fortress, withstood the shock of the legions of Grant as again 
and again they rushed against its ramparts, only to be laid low 
by the terrible storm of shot and shell that came from those in 
gray who manned the Confederate works. 

There are men. too. sleeping here who in the mighty rush of 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 189S. 29 

Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's army at Shiloh swept before them 
the Federal hosts, and who in return on the morrow were com- 
pelled to retire before the onslaught of Grant and Buell. 

There are some buried here who charged the works at Franklin, 
and whose chivalry and bravery, as again and again, even amid the 
darkness of the night, assailed the Federal breastworks, only to 
fall in the trenches or on the crest, elicited applause from their 
enemies who were waiting to stay them. 

These were not unworthy of honor ; they are part and parcel 
of that superb host which in the Civil War created American 
manhood — a manhood which commands the world's highest ad- 
miration, and which stamps this people as the most patriotic, 
most enlightened, and most powerful nation the world has ever 
seen. 

It was the lessons at Chickamauga, at Chancellorsvile, at Cold 
Harbor, at (lettysburg, at Franklin, at Resaca, at Shiloh which 
contributed to make American manhood and patriotism what it is, 
and which give power and stability to our country and its people 
and quiet those disturbing fears which sometimes arise in the 
hearts of people when they would doubt the perpetuity of Amer- 
ican institutions. 

The people of Ohio, in honoring these dead as Americans, only 
add luster to their own renown and to their splendid history ; 
for as you magnify and glorify Confederate courage and chivalry, 
\ ou only make more resplendent the courage and chivalry of those 
armies who overcame the magnificent hosts who once rallied be- 
neath the Confederate ensign. 

In the name of all that is good and kind and true, and with 
hearts full of the profoundest gratitude, we come to thank you 
for this offering to our fallen friends and comrades ; and we shall 
carry back with us sweet assurance of your splendid generosity 
and your superb humanity. 

The lessons of this hour are teaching us the splendor and the 
grandeur of republican institutions. You do not love the flag 
of this country because it won in the great contests which were 
waged in 1812 and 1813 for the redemption of Ohio and the 
States in the Northwest, or because of its superb triumphs on the 
plain of Buena Vista, or in the battles in which your own people 
were engaged in the great Civil War. It is not the victories 
that the armies which followed this flag have achieved, but it is 
what this flag represents that makes it the object of love and 
admiration of all the people of the world, and that makes all this 
American nation ready to lay down their lives and sacrifice their 
fortunes in defense of its honor and glory. That flag represents 
the best principles of government and noblest teachings of liberty. 

If, by some divine power, I could bring to life the dead who 
lie beneath this sod. they would spring forth into a patriotism 
as true as any the nation has ever seen. 



30 THR STORY Of' C.I MP CHASE. 

Tlie sons and f^Tatidsons of the men who sleep here are to-day 
part and parcel of the defenders of the glory of the American 
people. General Lee, General Wheeler, and General Butler, Con- 
federates though they be, can be trusted to lead your sons to battle 
and to maintain on any field the illustrious courage and heroic 
manhood of the American nation. 

There is something peculiarly touching in the conditions which 
surround these Confederate dead at Camp Chase. They died far 
away from their homes, amid the privations, the sufferings, of 
prison life. 

War always has its barbarous features. Within the walls of 
Camp Chase I lay by night and heard the groans and sobs of 
my comrades without power to help. I saw their pale, emaciated 
forms carried forth to sepulture in this cemetery. I saw them 
die without that care, tenderness, and watchfulness to which I 
thouglit, as men, they were entitled ; but this was only the war's 
results, and war is always organized barbarism. 

Your sons and brothers and friends have had the same experi- 
ence in Southern prisons. We are not now here to argue as to 
who was right or wrong ; we are here simply to say that we mourn 
our dead, that we love their memories, that we venerate their 
courage, their heroism. They died for what they believed was 
right ; they made the costliest sacrifice or offering man can make — 
they laid down their lives to testify their devotion and sincerity 
for the cause for which they fought; and the man who thus dies 
honestly and courageously never dies in vain. 

Our friends who went down to death here have no monuments. 
It were better so. The green grass grows above them. All who 
knew them will in a few years be dead. It is enough to know 
that their dust rests here, where they died for the cause to which 
they consecrated themselves. 

It was a custom among the Greeks to bring back the bones of 
their dead from their battlefield and inter them in a common 
stpulcher in their capital cities; but in one great battle (that of 
}k!arathon) the Grecian soldiers were buried where they fell. 
Their fidelity had been such that it was deemed fitting to sepul- 
clier them where they died. And so, if we could, we would not 
disturb this dust that sleeps here. 

The Great Teacher said that one who should give a cup of cold 
water in his name should have an everlasting reward. You, 
friends and fellow-countrymen, have done far more than give a 
cup of cold water in your splendid and magnanimous generosity 
to these Confederate soldiers who rest in your midst. 

Vou have spoken kindly of their courage; you have spoken 
generously of their gallantry ; you have spoken justly of their sac- 
rifices; you have scattered flowers over their resting places; you 
have remembered them after long years have passed since they 
were placed in these humble and unmarked tombs ; and I tell 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 1898. 31 

you that, in the eyes of God and of the angels who stand around 
his throne, such kindness, such sweet remembrances, shall not be 
forgotten, but somewhere in God's book there is a place to record 
this superb and splendid work. 

I thank God we do not ofifend you when we come into your 
midst and, looking up to heaven, ask him to bless our dead and 
those they represent ; and we should be ungrateful if we did not 
ask our God to bless you and to reward you for this kindness 
which you have shown to those we love. 

In a little while those of us who participated in that greatest 
of all wars will have passed away. We imagine we can commune 
with the spirits of our dead as we stand here about their graves 
to-day. "\Ve are not ashamed of them nor of the cause for 
which they died. We loved them, and we love their dust. We 
shall join them in a little while. 

We shall not come long to pay this tribute to those we love. 

"They hear a voice we cannot hear. 
Which says we must not stay ; 
They see a hand we cannot see, 
Which beckons us away." 

We will follow them in a little while ; but while we do live we 
come in reverence and tenderness to bless this spot, which con- 
tains for us "war's richest spoils, the ashes of the brave." 

And again, in the name of our people, in the name of all these 
generous, manly, magnanimous acts, we thank you for your kind- 
ness to our departed comrades. To them there is no longer clash 
of arms ; the conflict is over. The living speak for them, and we 
speak gratefully for these renewed evidences of your nobleness. 

Death sheds a solemn halo over these mounds. Peace and good 
will only abide here. 

"The foeman need not dread 

This gathering of the brave. 
Without sword or flag and with soundless tread. 
We muster once more our deathless dead 

Out of each lonely grave. 

The foeman need not frown, 

These all are powerless now. 
They gathered them here and laid them down ; 
Love, tears, and praise are the only crown 

We bring to wreathe them now." 

Colonel Young's address was followed by another song by the 
Glee Club, entitled "Blessed Be the Ground." Remarks were 
made by local members of the G. A. R. ; and the school children, 



32 



THE STORY Ol- LAMP CHASE 



under Miss Maud E. Fleming, of Avondale School, rendered in 
a most beautiful manner the song "Cover Them Over." 

Capt. John H. Leathers, President of the Confederate Associa- 
tion of Kentucky, was introduced, and said : 




MUIN 11. i,K.\IHKkS. 



I'ellow -citizens, ladies and gentlemen, and comrades (I think I 
can use the word "comrades" on this occasion), I rejoice to see 
this day. I rejoice that the day has at last come when we can in 
truth and sincerity say no F.ast. no West, no North, no South, but 
one country and one flag, and that Hag the Hag of a fully restored 
and glorious I'nion. 

For years the burden of my song has been the words of the 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 1898. 33 

immortal Webster: "Liberty and Union, now and ever, one and 
inseparable." 

Whatever difference of opinion there might have been in the 
minds of many of us concerning the necessity for our present war 
with Spain, one thing is certain : it has demonstrated to the world 
that sectionalism is dead in this country, and that we are now one 
people, with one common name and one common destinv. 

The war between the North and South was a most remarkable 
war, as well as the greatest war recorded, in history, of either 
ancient or modern times. It was remarkable in that it was not 
a war between two different countries or people speaking different 
languages, waged for conquest, but was among people of the 
same country, who spoke the same language, and who were bound 
together by the strongest ties of blood and kindred. Both fol- 
lowed their convictions of what thev believed to be right. Both 
fought with a valor unparalleled in the annals of warfare, and the 
bones of both lie mingled on every battlefield, from Bull Run to 
Appomattox, as the bones of their common ancestry lie mingled 
on every battlefield of the American Revolution, from Lexington 
to Yorktown. 

It was a remarkable war in that when the war ceased the van- 
quished immediately accepted the results of the war and renewed 
their allegiance to the Union, while the victorious extended the 
right hand of peace and good fellowship, and they both imme- 
diately commenced repairing the waste places made desolate by 
war. 

Passion and prejudice have long since gone with the flight 
of years, and each of us is now doing what we can to unify and 
develop this great country. The name and fame of the heroes 
ol the war on both sides are now the common heritage of our 
children and children's children. 

As one who for four years wore the gray, I stand here to-day on 
this happy occasion tO' avow my love and my allegiance to the 
fiag of my country. "Long may it wave o'er the land of the free 
and the home of the brave !" 

The Glee Club sang "Tread Lightly, Ye Comrades," and Miss 
Annie Williams recited that glorious poem, "Blue and Gray." 
The Glee Club sang "Tell the Boys I'm Coming Soon," and 
Thomas D. Osborne, Secretary of the Kentucky Confederate 
Association, spoke as follows : 

To-day I feel like an Ohio man — the man from Columbus 
who went South during the war, and who, meeting with a warm 
reception, was so pleased that when peace came he moved down 
South to make it his home. 

Ohio men go everywhere and get everything. This man chose 
to live in Arkansas. He had often heard the Rebel yell, and could 
3 



34 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

imitate it admirably ; so much so that it was his boast that he 
could shout longer and louder than any man in Arkansas. 

One day, when the White River was higher than ever known, a 
steamboat came there and tied up under a bluff near the Ohio 
man's town. He didn't know the boat was there. The captain 
came to town and heard the boaster brag that he could shout 
longer and louder than any man in Arkansas. 

After a talk, a bet of ten dollars was made. The captain, being 
allowed to select the time and place of contest, had chosen a dis- 
tant stump and had instructed his mate to watch his hand — when 
he lifted it to his moudi, to pull the steam whistle and let it go 
till his hand fell. The captain's turn came first, and when his 
hand went to his mouth there came a shouting noise that almost 
split the leaves of the trees. After the deafening sound had got 
well under way, the Ohio man raised his hand to his vest pocket, 
took out his money, walked to the steamboat captain, and said : 
"Hold on. I could yell louder than that, but here's your money ; 
I don't want to strain myself." 

So to-day, like the Ohio man, I could make a longer and louder 
speech, but I don't want to strain myself. 

Recently, when Ex-Confederate General Joseph Wheeler, 
through the magnificent kindness of that great Ohio man, Pres- 
ident McKinley, put on the blue uniform of the United States of 
America, he was asked how he felt. He replied : "I feel like 
I have been off on a furlough and am now back in the ranks 
again." 

Back in the ranks again — that's it. That's where we all are 
under one flag— the most famous flag ever floated by any govern- 
ment. 

We always had a claim on Old Glory. At the beginning of the 
war many in the South wanted to fight under it. Our forefathers 
had followed it when it floated on the breeze of battle. 

My grandfather. Lieut. Bennett Osborn, marched with Wash- 
ington under it. My father's brother went through the ^Mexican 
War with it. My son followed it three years in the Louisville 
Legion. 

Like General Wheeler, we can all gladly say : "Back in the 
ranks." On this happiest occasion, when through your mag- 
nificent kindness our heroes sleep in flower-garmented graves, 
we tender you unspeakable thanks. 

Lx-( Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, spoke briefly but eloquent- 
ly, and was listened to with deep attention by all present. Capt. 
Gilbert IL Barger, of Columbus, made an interesting address, 
alluding to the unity of sentiment between the sections in 
all things pertaining to the honor and glory of our common 
country. 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 1898. 35 

Chaplain Winget, a member of the G. A. R., offered prayer, 
and a gun squad from the McCoy G. A. R. Drill Corps fired a 
military salute over the graves, and the flowers were strewn by 
the loving hands of Union and Confederate veterans. 

Before closing the exercises the Chairman, in making some 
acknowledgments he thought proper, stated that during the last 
three years Mr. T. J. Davies had helped with his horse and 
wagon and many days of labor, free of charge ; Mr. Charles A. 
Roth, a Columbus (Ohio) florist, had been of great assistance, 
without cost. Thanks were extended to W. H. Grub for use of 
organ, to G. A. R. comrades of the McCoy Post Drill Corps for 
tlieir presence and participation, to the Fourth Ward Columbus 
(Ohio) Republican Club for the use of their chairs, and to the 
dear little girls of Avondale School for the music of their sweet 
voices ; also to many that had helped on decoration days and 
to others that had stood ready to assist. 

Continuing, the Chairman said that until 1898 no contributions 
had been accepted from any person in Ohio, but that Comrade 
R. M. Rownd had expressed his sympathy and tendered financial 
aid, being told that under no circumstances could any money be 
accepted. 

Afterwards, however, payment for planting shade trees and 
shrubbery was accepted from Mr. W. D. Brickell, Comrade 
Thomas E. Knauss (G. A. R.), Comrade Rownd (G. A. R.), and 
Confederate Comrades J. Y. Bassell and Rev. John Hewitt, all 
of Columbus, Ohio. Other contributions were received from 
Dr. Thomas P. Shields, J. B. Darling, and J. W. Carroll. Ko 
money had been asked for at any time from any person in the 
city of Columbus or State of Ohio. 

An itemized report was rendered to Gen. George Moorman and 
the Confederate Veteran of all donations received. 

So ended the service for 1898. 

The conveyances running from the terminal of the street car 
line carried free of charge all who wished to go to the cemetery. 
Four to five thousand people were present to participate, standing 
throughout the exercises in the shade of the trees, made cool by 
the gentle June breeze, which seemed to whisper, "Peace on earth, 
good will toward men." 

]\Iany of the choicest Southern flowers were received for the 



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occasion, and their frap^rance that evcninir seemed to linger with 
ahnost human sympatliy over the graves of the Southern dead. 

The feeHng in the South regarding the care of the graves of 
the Confederate dead in the North cannot be better expressed than 
to quote extracts from some of the letters received by me. 




CAMP CHASE SERVICES, If 



AN EMBLEM FROM THE SOUTH. 



Dear Sir : I notice in The Veteran the interest you have taken 
in caring for the Confederate dead at Camp Chase. I was in 
Camp Chase prison from August, 1864, to March, 1865; therefore 
it is my privilege to acknowledg-e the obligations that all. espe- 
cially those who w^ere prisoners of war at that place, arc under to 
}()U and your associates in the work. 

You will pardon me if I say that it is humiliating to acknowl- 
edge the fact that it remained for a Federal soldier thirty years 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 



37 



after to have the manhood to step to the front and do what the 
Confederates should have done long ago. 

But this manhood is not born of sections ; no arbitrary lines, 




DERORATION DAY, CAMP CHASE, 1898. EMBLEM ON THE LEFT PRESENTED BY 
EX-SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ASSOCIATION, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO. 

no uniform, no cause, no line of battle, no flag mark the higher 
type of man. 

Much of the bitterness of life in Camp Chase will be blotted 
out by works such as this. I hope you will receive such assistance 



38 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

as will enable you to pcniiancntly mark the resting place of the 
bodies of those who. summoned to the other great army mustered 
under "The Ronnie White Flag," peacefully wait the comrades 
yet in ranks. 

By the way. "The Bonnie White Flag" was written 1)\' Colonel 
Hawkins, of our mess in Camp Chase. 

That was a typical mess — colonels, captains, border men. and 
way-down-South fellows. Organized to escape, we worked day 
and night under many disappointments ; but all the same that old 
mess went to work again, determined to get away. But only 
through the gates and by parole did we turn our backs on the 
horrors of Camp Chase, and thirty-two years after the first bright 
spot in that dark memory appears. May it spread until all the 
nightmare of the past is forgotten in the brightness and rest of 
the present ! 

A letter from Mrs. J. S. Raine, Secretary of Atlanta Chapter,. 
Daughters of the Confederacy, is reproduced to show the spirit 
of the time, and the kindly help we received at the hands of that 
chivalric gentleman and friend, S. A. Cunningham, of Nashville : 

Col. W. H. Knauss. 

Dear Sir: At a recent meeting of Atlanta Chapter we had the 
pleasure of an address from Mr. .S. .\. Cunningham, proprietor of 
The Confederate J'eteraii, in which he spoke of his complimentary 
and most delightful reception tendered by a number of citizens of 
Columbus, Ohio, at your suggestion. He spoke very feelingly 
of your noble and successful efiforts that proper care should be 
taken of the graves of our un forgotten dead buried at Camp Chase 
Cemeter}-. 

I have before me a picture of the ceremony of decoration which 
occurred in 1897. I trust it may be my pleasure to see the sacred 
inclosure. The Atlanta Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy 
desire to express their sincere thanks and appreciation for vour 
generous and loving attentions to our dead. On this occasion of 
your decoration we will be happy to assist with our floral offer- 
ings. 

A letter from William II. Herbert, of Sandusky, Ohio, 1898. 
gives an insight to matters relating to decoration services in that 
city, and it shows that another Ohio city is not forgetful of 
courtesies to dead foes. The letter states that the cemeterv in 
which are buried the Confederates who died in prison is in a good 
state of preservation and has been well taken care of since about 
eight years ago, when an association of Georgia editors was in 
the vicinity and made a pilgrimage to Johnson's Island and ceme- 



THE INTEREST GROWING— 1898. 39 

tcry. At that time the graves were marked with wooden head- 
pieces, giving the name, regiment, etc. Some of the boards were 
very much decayed and the names scarcely legible ; so the editors, 
when they returned home, made a request through their papers 
for contributions to replace the boards with marble, also to build 
a fence around the cemetery. The result was that they collected 
enough in a short time to do the work nicely. 

In Sandusky, Ohio, it has been the custom for eighteen years 
to send a delegation from the G. A. R. Post on the morning of 
decoration day to the Confederate cemetery at Johnson's Island 
and hold a short service. They are always joined by a large 
number of men, women, and children. 

Mr. Herbert was a prisoner at Camp Chase (Prison 2, Mess 12) 
in the fall of 1862, and left there the latter part of November, 
1862, in company with some 200 Confederate prisoners, who were 
taken by rail to Cairo, 111., and thence by boat to Vicksburg. 
Miss., thence to Jackson, Miss., where they were exchanged and 
furnished transportation to the Army of Northern A'irginia. 

A letter from a Mr. McClellan, of Athens, Ala., glowing in 
patriotic sentiment and beautiful Christian charity, will be treas- 
ured by the one who received it until blotted out by the final call : 

What a privilege to be an American! J\I. Lester says: "God 
has given us a grand mission." 

The war with Spain was on and the Southern boys were 
marching away under the Stars and Stripes. Sons of heroic men 
v/ho fought to tear its stars from the azure field were bearing it 
proudly against a foreign foe who could not know the mag- 
nificent strength of a united North and South. . . . You can 
understand how busy are our women with their needles these 
bright days, ministering to our absent soldier boys. The sewing 
machine, instead of the parlor instruments, makes the nuisic of the 
hour. 

You will not know until the struggle is over the strong ties 
between the North and South born of this comradeship — whose 
sons, the descendants of patriots, could mingle their blood and 
tears for principles dear to them, under opposing standards, and 
blend their dust under a common banner against a merciless foe 
on alien shore. Let us keep their graves green. 

We will send flowers for the Southern Memorial Day, and may 
God bless the hands that place them over our silent heroes ! 

As the promoter of this fraternal observance, you will be grate- 
fully remembered by us. Yours for America on land and sea. 



CHAPTER IV. 
The Services of 1899. 

The Children of Avondale School Sing — Orations by Judge David E. 
Johnson, of Bluefields. W. Va., and by General W. D. Hamilton — 
Tableau of Blue and Gray with Hands Clasped — An Impromptu Serv- 
ice Some Days before the Regular Decoration Exercises — ^The South- 
ern Members of Waterworks Convention Pleased and Impressed — They 
Stood with Uncovered Heads — The Mystery of the Broken Tombstone. 

True to the Sotith, they offered free from stain 
Courage and faith ; vain faith and courage vain. 
For her they threw lands, honors, wealth away ; 
And one more hope that was more prized than they. 
For her they languished in a foreign clime. 
Gray-haired with sorrow in their manhood's prime ; 
Beheld each night their homes in fevered sleep, 
Each morning started from their dreams to weep ; 
Till God, who saw them tried too sorely, gave 
The resting place they asked — an early grave. 
O, then, 

Forget all feuds, and shed one manly tear 
O'er Southern dust — for broken hearts lie here. 

— Columbus {Ohio) Press-Post. 

Again there were flags and flowers at Camp Chase Cemetery. 
Again the Blue and the Gray walked side by side through grass- 
grown paths and scattered flowers upon pathetic heaps of earth. 

There were not so many ex-Confederates present as the } ear 
"before, but all who came were made welcome by their Ohio 
friends. If at first the friends seemed few, that time was past, 
and a multitude was present for the exercises in 1899. Among 
the number again taking melodious part were the pupils of the 
Avondale School of Columbus; and if the souls dwelling; in God's 
eternal somewhere revisit earth, two thousand spectral forms stood 
reverent as the sweet, fresh, young voices of the children sang. 

The exercises began by bugle call. Then the long roll was 
sounded by the G. A. R. Veteran Drum Corps. The audience 
joined with the school children in singing "America," after which 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



there was presented, on behalf of the Ex-Soldiers' and Sailors" 
Association, by Comrade D. M. Brelsford, for many years its 
secretary, a lar,Q^e and handsome floral piece, received by that 
courtly representative of the South, Rev. John Hewitt, in a grace- 
ful speech of thanks, voicing the gratitude of the Southerners 
toward the ex-soldiers and people of Columbus. 

The "Blue and the Gray" was then sung by the Misses Maud 
and Sophia Fleming in a sweet and charming manner, after 
which prayer was offered up to the Divine Being for his blessing" 
upon so auspicious and important event in the advance of his 
kingdom and love. 

The invocation was followed by the pupils of the Avondale 
School singing "To-Day This Hallowed Place We Seek," in^ 
which the sweet young voices, rising amid a hushed and sacred 
silence, moved many to tears. 

The opening address, by Judge D. F. Pugh, was listened to with 
deep attention and interest. At its conclusion the school children 
sang "Cover Them Over with Beautiful Flowers." 

Col. David F. Johnson, of Bluefield, W. Va., spoke briefly in- 
response to the address of Judge Pugh. He thanked the soldiers'' 
organization which presented the floral piece, also the ladies' 
societies auxiliary to the Union \'eteran Legion, and the F.x-Sol- 
diers' and Sailors' Society. 

He expressed the thanks of the South for the thoughtful regard 
v.'hich inspired these services and the men and women who took 
part in them, concluding in a most touching manner by picturing 
scenes in Southern homes where women were thinking tenderly 
of those flower-strewn mounds bencatli which the dust of their 
loved ones lay. 

The concluding address was delivered by Gen. W. D. Hamilton, 
of Zanesville, Ohio, whose speech the Louisville Courier- Journal 
published in full and said of the speaker: "He was during the 
Civil War one of the noted cavalry leaders on the Federal side, 
and the sentiments that he expressed were so manly, brave, and 
patriotic that they reflect great credit on his head and heart ; and 
the people of the South will pleasantly remember General Ham- 
ilton for his generous and noble address." 

My friends, it is easy to hate our enemies. It is natural to re- 
tain a spirit of enmity against those who have injured us. 

It is a mission of Christianity to give us lessons of forgiveness. 



THE SERVICES OF 1899. 



4S 



and the Son of God came from heaven to teach us not only to for- 
give our enemies, but to love them. 

In this there is an inference that we ourselves may have given 
some cause to make enemies, and that there is something good 
and lovable even in those who dififer from us. 

It is not our province to discuss the cause of our Civil War. 
It is enough for us to know that these men buried here were inno- 
cent. It cannot be traced to the men who took to the field on 




GEN. \V. D. HAMILTON. 



either side. Its origin was embodied in the Constitution and 
grew out of the unfortunate existence of slavery when it was 
formed, and came down to us through nearly a century of bitter 
legislative contention, and was finally disposed of in that bloody 
court of which we formed a part. 

During all this time the social relation between the sections 
became less and less cordial, and the business interests more and 
more strained. We cultivated the habit of belittling all that was 
good and magnifying all that was bad in each other. 



44 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

War brought destruction and untold sorrow, but it cleared away 
the obstacles to a better knowledge of the people toward each 
other. Our former impressions were entirely upset by the won- 
derful courage and nobleness of character displayed on both sides. 

Never were armies composed of men more earnest in their 
efforts, intensified, if possible, during the last two years as the 
forces of the South were driven back to become the defenders of 
their homes against the increasing strength of a powerful invading 
army. 

It is little wonder that the women of the South, whose homes 
were ruined, and the women of the North, whose sons lie scattered 
in unknown graves, should retain a feeling of bitterness. Heart 
wounds were given which saddened the life of a generation and 
have magnified the task of conciliation which the best men and 
women of both sides have undertaken and which these floral 
tributes to the Confederate dead to-day are designed to promote. 

On occasions like this we feel that there is a holiness in flowers. 
They are the mute companions of our purest thoughts and give 
expression to our tenderest sympathies. They are angels from 
the realm of nature employed to bear our message of affection to 
the dead. 

The fraternal spirit which prompts our presence here to-day 
is the harbinger of a time when the people of the United States 
will gather annually, bringing the roses of the North and the 
magnolia blossoms of the South as a tribute to American valor 
to trim the graves of every soldier who fell in battle or died in 
prison for a cause he had been taught from pulpit and from family 
altar to believe was right. . . . 

In the better light of a third of a century both sections are 
learning to look upon the Civil War as thoughtful students of its 
results. 

We can now see that God was preparing the nation through 
a sacrifice of blood to become his consistent agent in the difficult 
task of advancing civilization in the dark places of earth and in 
extending Christian liberty among the islands of the sea. 

It was the training of the Civil War that made recent unpar- 
alleled achievements possible. 

The sons of the Blue and the Gray fulfilled the promise of their 
fathers when they fell into line side by side to test the power 
of Spain. And they have divided the honors of a most brilliant 
campaign on land and sea. 

The daring spirit of Lieutenant Hobson, of Alabama, is the 
pride of the North as well as the South. 

The dashing courage of Colonel Roosevelt, of New York, with 
his Rough Riders from both sections, has won the admiration of 
us all, and we old soldiers of the cavalry recognize a gallant 
brother in Gen. Joe Wheeler, that ubiquitous trooper of Alabama, 
who used to bother us so much when we wore the blue and he 



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46 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

the gray ; and a startled world joins us with uncovered heads in 
paying homage to that phenomenal hero of the Asiatic seas, 
George Dewey, of \"ermont. 

It is time that we bury the bitterness of the past when we re- 
flect that in the scales with which anxious nations are weighing 
us to-day not only will these names be placed, but the character 
and ability of Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Stonewall 
Jackson will be estimated side by side with that of Grant, Sherman, 
and Sheridan, and the soldierly qualities of both armies will be 
equally considered in determining the nation's place among the 
powers of the earth. 

My fellow-citizens of the gray and the blue, as we distribute 
these flowers on the graves of more than two thousand of the 
nation's Confederate dead I feel that we should thank God that 
we and they were permitted to belong to that generation of sol- 
diers who were selected to work out his plans, however myste- 
rious, for the republic. 

In closing I quote the language of General Gordon at a Confed- 
erate reunion in Charleston, S. C, when he said : "I feel 
the power of your confidence to pledge in the name of 
every Confederate and son and daughter of Confederates the 
South's eternal loyalty to every cause for the upholding of Amer- 
ican manhood, the perpetuity of American freedom, the unity 
of the American people, and by all these agencies we may accel- 
erate the onward march of the American republic in its benign 
progress." 

Men and women of the North, we should be encouraged to pay 
some regard to the graves of their comrades, which the fortunes of 
war have placed in our keeping, to hear such sentiments expressed 
by the foremost living Confederate and indorsed by that great as- 
sembly of his comrades. 

"The Soldier's Farewell" was sung by the school children, fol- 
lowed by a tableau in which Blue and Gray clasped hands. At 
the conclusion of the exercises J. C. McCoy Post Drill Corps fired 
a soldier's salute, and the graves were decorated by the representa- 
tives of th.e two armies present, assisted by the ladies of the U. \'. 
L. and ladies, and Society of the Ex-Soldiers' and Sailors' Asso- 
ciation. 

In addition to the flowers sent from the South, several wagon 
loads of flowers were sent by local friends. Not a grave of the 
two thousand two hundred and sixty was slighted ; on each were 
flowers from the old home and from the North. 

So ended the services of 1899. 

Some twcnt}- days prior to the events just narrated an im- 



THE SERVICES OF 1899. 47 

pressive and impromptu little service was held at Camp Chase 
Cemetery, and it came about in this way : 

A national convention of waterworks superintendents was be- 
ing held in the city of Columbus, and among the number were 
many Southern men. Some of these gentlemen bore a part in 
the memorable struggle of the sixties, and naturally desired to see 
the cemetery that was attracting so much attention North and 
South. 

These gentlemen, together with the ex-Confederate soldiers and 
ladies of the South then residing in Columbus, by invitation of the 
writer visited the cemetery for the purpose of seeing how well and 
with what tender devotion the mounds covering the last resting 
place of the Confederate dead were cared for by the people of 
the North in whose keeping the destinies of war had placed them. 
The party was made up of Rev. John Hewitt, rector of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church ; Hon. H. C. Erwin, Atlanta, Ga. ; Mr. W. J 
Milne, Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. Charles A. Boiling, Richmond 
Va. ; Judge J. A. Anderson, Atlanta, Ga. ; Col. L. H. Goodman 
New Orleans; Gen. Waller S. Payne, Fostoria, Ohio; Mr. H. C 
Campbell, Charlotte. N. C. ; Mr. W. H. Rapp and Col. J. B 
Travis, of Atlanta ; and others. 

The trip to Camp Chase was made in carriages, kindly furnished 
by Chief Lauer, of the Columbus Fire Department, Judge D. F. 
Pugh, A. W. Shields, W. B. Potts, H. N. P. Doyle, and myself. 

Arriving at the burial grounds, Rev. Dr. Hewitt ofifered an 
invocation in which he eloquently and beautifully referred to the 
noble cause promoting the gathering, and invoked the blessing of 
the Supreme Ruler of all in the exercises to be performed. 

The members of the party were provided with potted flowers 
by Mrs. Knauss to be planted upon graves of the heroic dead. 
The ladies who had assembled at the grounds before the arrival 
of the visitors requested the honor of planting the flowers, and 
that pleasant task was submitted to their willing hands. The 
«cene presented after the graves had been decorated was beautiful 
and impressive. Around and above the silent mounds of earth 
stood with uncovered heads the persons mentioned. The fresh, 
green grass waved gently to and fro, swayed by the gentle spring 
breeze, while the wind breathed a solemn requiem through the 
irees overhead. As each one of the party spoke tenderly of the 



4S THE SrORV OF CAMP CHASE. 

silent heroes buried there, and uttered words of commendation- 
and praise for the men and women of the North, the eyes of the 
visitors from the South filled with tears of emotion as they beheld 
the graves of their dead. 

For years there stood in the cemetery a broken tombstone, and 
its loneliness made it conspicuous. The top of the stone, through 
some unknown cause, had been broken off and in the lapse of 
years had been lost. On the remaining portion of the stone re- 
mained the inscription: "Third Miss. Batt. Resident Osyka^ 
Miss. Died Jan. i6, 1865. Aged 37 yrs. Erected by his wife."^ 
The lost portion evidently contained the husband's name. The 
stone was broken long before the decoration services caused the 
briers to be torn away and flowers placed thereon. - 

The story of these exercises reached the Southland, and a 
Union soldier placed there a box of flowers which came with the 
request that they be strewn over this unknown grave. 

W. Y. Smith, who had been a bugler in the Second Ohio Vol- 
unteer Cavalry, was present at the exercises in 1898, and when, 
he learned the story of the broken stone said he would replace 
it if the name of the Confederate buried there could be ascertained.. 
Eventually word reached a far-away home in Mississippi, and irt 
due time a letter came containing a strip of muslin yellow with 
age, on which was an impression of the face of the broken stone 
as it was when originally put up. The impression showed the 
words and their alignment, as follows : 

IN MEMORY OF 

I. L. CAUSEY, 

ORDNANCE SERGT. 

The stone was broken through the line "Ordnance Scrgt." 
Smith made good his promise, and when the graves were dec- 
orated in 1899, there stood a marble slab and the name of the 
dead soldier was a mystery no longer. 



CHAPTER \'. 

Camp Chase in 1900. 

Ohio's Governor Present at the Services at Camp Chase — He Makes a 
Wise and Patriotic Address — The Ex-Confederates Pleased with His 
Kindly Expressed Sentiments Concerning the Dust of the Lonely Dead 
— General Arnold, of Kentucky, Delivered an Eloquent and Touching- 
Speech — Mrs. T. W. Rose, President of the Ladies' Society of the 
Union Veteran Legion, Spoke with Much Tenderness — Dr. Thomas P. 
Shields, an Ex-Confederate of Ohio. One of the Speakers — What South- 
ern Governors Said. 

The slanting- rays of the setting- sitn were tinting the flowered 
graves as, leaving the cemetery, the people turned to catch a last 
look at the peaceful scene and breathe once rnore the floral South- 
ern fragrance. 

It had been a successful da}-, and for the first time in the his- 
tory of the exercises there was an Ohio Governor present. Year 
after year the chief officer of the State Government had been 
invited to be present, and year after year the invitation was de- 
clined. One Governor said frankly he was not in sympathy with 
the work and did not think it right. The kind-hearted ]\IcKinley 
was in doubt as to the propriety- of decorating these graves and 
declined attending with the gentleness and dignity that character- 
ized his dealings with his fellow-men. Afterwards, when he be- 
came President of the United States, his feelings underwent a 
change, as was evidenced by his Atlanta speech, mentioned in the 
introductory chapter of this volume. 

When the invitation was extended to Governor Nash he at once 
accepted, saying with decided emphasis: "1 am in sympathy with 
this work and will join you willingly in paying tribute to the 
memory of these men." 

Not only the ex-Confederates, but all who took part in the ex- 
ercises, were pleased because of his views upon this and kindred 
subjects. 

The address delivered by Governor Nash was as follows : 

This is a strange scene. We are assembled about the graves 
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THli STORY 01' LAMP CHASE. 



of more than two thousand soldiers who perished from 1861 to 
1865. At that time the men buried here were a part of that 
great army engaged in civil strife. More than thirty-five years 
have passed since that great conflict ended, and we are here to do 
honor to them by bestowing loving tributes upon their graves. 
They were once our enemies, but we now look upon their brave 
deeds as a part of our history. 




GOV. (iEUKGE K. NASH. 



As I said in the beginning, this is a ]ieculiar situation, and yet 
it is no more so than the conflict in which these men fell. In 
his second inaugural President Lincoln said : "Neither party ex- 
pected for. the war the magnitude or the duration which it has 
already attained. Xeither anticipated that the cause of the con- 
flict might cease with it, or even before the conflict itself should 
cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fun- 
damental and astounding, lloth read the same liible and prayed 
to the same God, and each invoked his aid against the otiier." 

It was strange, indeed, that two parties through whose veins 



CAMP CHASE IN 1900. 51 

flowed the same blood should inaugurate and carry on for four 
years a conflict the most destructive conflict in life and property 
which is recorded in modern history. 

It was most fortunate that both parties read the same Bible and 
prayed to the same God, because such peoples could not remain 
hostile to each other. With the lapse of time all the peoples of 
this country have again become loyal to the government founded 
"by a common country. All have again learned to love the same 
flag, and have been, and will be, its ardent supporters when dan- 
ger threatens. When engaged in a foreign war the sons of the 
South and the sons of the North again became loyal soldiers of 
the republic and demonstrated that we are a reunited people — in 
heart, in soul, and in every aspiration of patriotism. 

The ceremony in which we have engaged to-day is not a use- 
less nor a meaningless one. It shows that we of the North have 
no hatred for the brave men who were once our foes. On the 
other hand, it demonstrates that for those who fell in an unavoid- 
able conflict we have respect and honor and love, and that with 
those who still live we join hands in loyal support of the match- 
less government whose foundations were laid by their fathers 
and ours, and cemented by their blood in the days of the Revolu- 
tion. 

It is hoped that as the years go by our children and our chil- 
dren's children may unite in showing honor to the soldiers of the 
Confederacy as well as to the soldiers of the Union. All fought 
most honorably in a conflict which, it seems, could not have been 
avoided. To their names no dishonor should be attached. By 
thus honoring all, love for a great republic will be strengthened 
and her flag will be followed as the guiding star for all the people 
for all time to come. 

Again I quote from the local daily papers : 

Over the graves of the fallen Southerners floated a tiny red, 
white, and blue banner of the United States, while the memorial 
shaft and the speakers' stand were decorated in the same colors. 
The remarks of Governor Nash were so well received by the 
Confederate veterans that Rev. Dr. Hewitt moved a vote of 
thanks be tendered. This was carried by — as Col. Knauss put 
it — -a vote of two hundred thousand to one, the Governor voting 
"no." "The Governor has expressed," continued Dr. Hewitt, "a 
sentiment that is as broad and liberal as it is possible for any one 
who had fought either for or against the South to express. Any 
one who could stand there and express the sentiments the Gov- 
ernor has done would be worthy the recognition and thanks of 
those against whom he had fought." 

Mrs. Alice M. Rambo and Miss Edna Smith sang the duet, 
"Forget Not the Day," after which General Arnold, an ex-Con- 



52 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

federate, whose son was in one of the Kentucky regiments in 
the Spanish-American War. made a beautiful and touching- 
speech. He told of the gratitude of the Southern wives and 
mothers toward the noble Northern men and women who had 
reclaimed the burial grounds and strewed flowers over the 
mounds of the sleeping veterans of the South, adding: 

When ni}- countrNinen and my countrywomen read of your 
acts, the fragrance of your good deeds is like the dew on the 
blossom, and the rain of their blessing is upon you. 

The General told of the bloody day at Perry ville. i\y., when the 
home of his widowed mother was turned into a hospital and she 
administered alike to those who wore the blue and those who 
wore the gray. God created the world, the flowers, and the 
birds; then he created man after his own image; and then, best 
of all, he created woman. 

General Arnold, continuing, said : 

For four years 1 was a Confederate soldier, and as such i have 
no regret. With the memory of those days upon me, 1 desire 
to thank Governor Nash for his patriotic address. L)Oth sides 
built monuments of bronze and stone, but those crumble. The 
names, however, will be handed down as a heritage as long as 
language is a vehicle of thought between man and man. 

The Chairman, at the conclusion, of Gen. Arnold's address, in- 
troduced Mrs. T. W. Rose, National President of the Union \'et- 
eran Legion, a ladies' society, who said : 

i have been asked to represent the Woman's Soldiers' Aid So- 
ciety and the ladies of the Union Veteran Legion, which duty i 
feel myself incompetent to perform adequately. 1 feel it ni) 
sacred duty, however, to come and assist in strewing flowers over 
these brave men who lie here, so far from home and kindred. 
I'hese were men who fought bravely for their convictions. They 
left their loved ones as did our own brave boys. W'c come re- 
n.embering the mothers, wives, and sisters who sent them and 
l^repared them for war with their own hands, and wc know they 
would gladly strew with their own hands these flowers. 

Sisters of the South and sisters of the dead in our keeping, as 
long as we are permitted to come here we will cover these green 
graves with your flowers; and with our own loved ones we hope 
fo meet after the last bugle calls to the other shore. God bless 
the r.lue and the Grav! 

Dr. Thomas P. Shields, of ITnJon Countv. an ex-Confederate. 



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was introduced ; and though at first he was overcome b\- emotion, 
he made an eloc|ucnt speech. Among other things, he said that 
he always marched wiih the boys in bhie on their memorial day 
and helped to strew the tiowers. 

The Daily Press-Post, of Columbus, which has always treated 
the Confederate Memorial Day with great consideration, asked 
the Governors of many Southern States, particularly those whO' 
had been in the Southern army, to express their views upon the 
memorial services conducted at Camp Chase each year, outlining 
the interest taken by Col. W. II. Knauss and the Columbus 
people in this Confederate burying ground and how in recent 
years veterans of both armies have gathered around the graves 
and obliterated the old hostilities forever in the ceremonies of 
fraternal forgetfulness. 

The responses, some of which are quoted, tell eloquently of 
national rejuvenation, for which the people of Columbus are 
profoundly grateful, since they have so earnestly promoted the 
new era of fellowship between the sections. 

Gov. Joseph D. Sayres, of Texas, wrote : 

The intelligence conveyed in your telegram of this date is in- 
deed gratifying. Such action cannot fail to receive the sincere 
and hearty approbation of every true American. I wish that I 
could be present to j^articipate. 

Gov. J. Hoge Tyler, of Virginia : 

The occasion mentioned in your telegram is of special interest 
to me, because of loved ones resting beneath the sod at Camp 
Chase. 

May the fragrance and sweetness of flowers from Union and 
Confederate hands be a token of that love and friendship which, 
now unites our country ! 

("lOv. A. D. Candler, of Georgia: 

It is to me a beautiful sentiment which prompts the action' 
of those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray in the 
work of doing honor to their dead comrades who fought on both 
sides in the fratricidal conflict from 1861 to 1865. I have said — 
and I have been criticised for saying — that, next to my brother 
Confederate soldier who fought for his convictions, I have the 
greatest admiration for the good Federal soldier who fought for 
liis convictions; and it speaks well for our civilization and well 
for our glorious Union that those arrayed in deadly conflict a 
generation ago can now unite as a band of brothers in doing 



CAMP CHASE IN 1900. 55 

honor to the memory of their dead comrades, without regard to 
the flag under which they fought. 

As an American citizen, proud of the country in which he lives, 
I am thankful that 1 have lived long enough to see the asperities of 
that sanguinary conflict largely disappear, and I feel confident that 
in less than another generation they will have entirely disappeared 
from the minds and hearts of all unbiased and intelligent men. 
Each side had convictions and each side was brave enough to 
fight for its convictions. That is the whole case in a sentence. 

With love for my old comrades who wore the gray, and the 
highest admiration and esteem for the men who wore the blue. 

Gov. J. F. Johnston, of Alabama : 

Every flower laid on the graves of our dead soldiers, sleeping so 
far from their homes and loved ones, by the gallant comrades of 
the Grand Army and by the Confederate Veterans, fellow-citizens 
of the North, will be fragrant in our memories for years to come. 

Such acts show that the American soldiers are the bravest and 
gentlest in all the world. 

Gov. Daniel W. Jones, of Arkansas : 

I congratulate the veterans of the Civil War, and the nation, 
upon the state of feeling which makes it possible to witness the 
decoration of Confederate graves by veterans of both sides, as I 
am informed is to be done in your city to-morrow. 

Gov. Daniel L. Russell, of North Carolina: 

Your communication, conveying to me the pleasant intelligence 
that the Federal and Confederate veterans of your city will unite 
this year to adorn the graves of the Confederate dead who sleep 
at Camp Chase, is gratifying to me. 

It indicates that the unpleasant sentiments which so long and 
so disastrously divided our country are passing away, and that 
we are to have not only a union under our Constitution and laws, 
but also a reunited people, exhibiting a willingness to forget the 
past and determined to unite in securing the future good gov- 
ernment and glory of our common country. 

Please convey to the veterans. Confederate and Federal, my ap- 
preciation of their generous and patriotic behavior, and allow me 
to express the hope that the time may not be distant when the 
last vestige of passion that accompanied and followed the struggle 
which threatened the destruction of the republic shall have passed 
away and have been entirely forgotten. 

The sentiments expressed by these distinguished gentlemen 
are treasured in the hearts of those who took part in the service' 
ar Camp Chase, not only that year, but the preceding years when 
there were few to do honor to these sons of the South at rest 
upon Ohio soil. 



CHAPTER VI. 

The Memorial of 1901. 

Arm in Arm the Men of the South and North Marched into the Cemetery 
Where Sleep the Dead of Camp Chase Prison — Commander Shields, 
of the Confederate Camp, and Commander Grim, of McCoy Post, G. A 
R., Leading the Way — Children of Avondale School Sing — Rev. John 
Hewitt Delivers an Address — Hon. Emmet Tompkins, Then Repub- 
lican Member of Congress, Delivers an Oration — Remarks by Rev. How- 
ard Henderson, Ex-Confederate — Captain Rogers, an Ex-Confederatc, 
Places Southern Flowers on Graves of the Union and Confederate Sol- 
diers. 

The services of 1901 were sticcessfuUy carried otit, noth with- 
standing the fact that at a late hotir changes in the matter of 
transportation from Cokimbus were made that required prompt 
action. The arrangements made with the Cokimbus, London, and 
Springfield Interurban Line to use a locomotive to haul the peo- 
ple who proposed to attend had to be canceled at the moment, 
owing to the possibility that it might endanger the company's 
franchise to use a locomotive. The nearest approach bv rail 
at that time was the Camp Chase terminus of the West Broad 
Street Line, and from that point to the cemetery was about three- 
quarters of a mile. As hurriedly as possible cars were secured 
and great crowds filled them as fast as they came. Carriages and 
omnibuses were ordered posthaste for the school children and 
invited guests. The people of Columbus and near-by towns 
w^alked from the end of the street car line to the cemetery, and 
the crowd was the largest that had thus far attended the exercises. 

The veterans of McCoy Post, G. A. R., and the ex-Confederates 
in attendance, together with the school children, formed outside 
the grounds, and arm in arm the Southern and Northern men 
marched to the platform, wdiere, side by side, sat T. P. Shields, 
Commander of Confederate Camp No. 1181, of Columbus, and 
John Grim, Commander of J. C. McCoy Post No. i, G. A. R. 

Again the children of Avondale School, under the direction of 
their teacher, Miss Osgood, daughter of a Union soldier, sang 
"The Star-Spanglcd P)anncr," while Commantlers Grim and 



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Shields drew the starry banner to its place upon the tall flagstaff 
that I erected in the cemetery. A burst of cheers greeted our 
national flag as it floated in the breeze, waving joyously as though 
instinctive with knowledge that old-time foes were united in 
making it the emblem of one country and for one people. 

Rev. John Hewitt delivered an address that was listened to 




REV. JOHN HEWITT. 



with deep appreciation. The name of this gentleman and South- 
ern soldier appears quite frequently in this story, and it is unneces- 
sary to repeat to the reader again who he is. When the Fourth 
Ohio Infantry returned from Porto Rico at the close of hostili- 
ties, he was made Chaplain ; so much for the peace and harmony 
demonstrated since the men of Camp Chase prison went to 
their sad and lonely rest. Dr. Hewitt concluded his address by 
saying : 

They are no longer prisoners of war. If they could know all 
that has happened since they died, and see what we see to-day, I 



38 THE STORY Of CAMP CHASE. 

venture to believe that they would think and feel about what we 
are doing to-day as we ourselves do — would think and feel about 
the flag as we do. And hence it cannot be as some have hinted — 
that it was an ofifense to their memory to raise that flag where 
they now sleep. It seems fitting, therefore, that such who recall 
the conflict that proved them the bravest of brave soldiers and 
learned to respect them for valorous deeds when living should 
gather about their graves when dead and join in ceremonies such 
as these in testimony of the fact that they won this respect — 
worth the winning, worth remembering, and worth being kept 
alive. 

You Ohio comrades of the Blue will not deny that when we 
laid down our arms and again raised the Stars and Stripes over 
the Capitols of our Confederate States, by those acts the nation 
began to grow stronger and the flag to take on greater glory. 

The Hon. Emmet Tompkins, Republican Member of Congress, 
from the Columbus district at the time, delivered an oration, in 
which he said : 

Friends and fellow-citizens, we are assembled to-day for the 
purpose of laying flowers on the graves of dead Americans. The 
children have come with their beaming faces and clothed in bright 
summer garments to sing with sweet and innocent voices songs 
of praise and patriotism. Among you I behold men crowned 
with the frost of time and even bent with the weight of years. It 
seems to me that all the stages and all the walks of active life 
have here their representatives, mingled as they are into a har- 
monious whole, while over all, stretched by a friendly breeze, 
floats the flag of our nation — the Star-Spangled Banner. The 
scene is novel and affecting to me because these dead Americans 
gave up their lives for their convictions, and one might well won- 
der that at the capital of the great State of Ohio there would 
ever assemble such a body as this to perform the simple and 
tender acts of to-day. 

But during the long stretch of years since the Confederac} 
dissolved wondrous changes have been wrought and many wounds 
have been healed by the touch of time. I am not here for 
the purpose of paying tribute to or manifesting concurrence in 
that war which dug these graves. But I am here for the purpose 
of indicating my willingness to adopt the admonition of General 
Grant when he said, "Let us have peace !" and to bury in these 
graves along with the bones of soldiers the animosities which for 
four dreadful years held the North and the South in their deadly 
grasp. 

To the Confederates who accept the results of that war and 
now join in devotion to the Union I give the right hand of fel- 
lowship; to those of them who still linger amid the ashes and 



^ THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

nourish in their bosoms the bitterness of the past I can only ex- 
press the hope that they will ere long realize how vain all such 
thoughts are and how far better it is to dwell together in peace 
and harmony. 

To the words of General Grant, already quoted, "Let us have 
peace !" we add the sentiment of President McKinley when he 
expressed the wish that the government would take charge of and 
care for the final resting places of Gonfederate soldiers. Both 
these are the manifestations of the spirit of forgetfulness, and 
they lead to the high plane of universal brotherhood among all 
Americans. If we imbibe this spirit, then will this nation reach 
the full orb of its possible greatness. 

The late war with Spain has done much to close the breach 
between the North and the South. Upon the land and upon the 
seas the sons of the North mingled their blood with that of the sons 
of the South, and the two made a common and a glorious sacrifice. 
It was an inspiring spectacle to behold the heroic youth of the 
land of flowers marching by the side of the youth of the land of 
the snow — each wearing the blue, each keeping step to the "Star- 
Spangled Banner," and each lifting his cap to the emblem of lib- 
erty and equality. Earnest and patriotic men find much hope in 
that spectacle. 

To-day we are in the presence of the dead. The edge of the 
grave is no place for bitterness. Let us be just and concede 
that these dead while in life believed they were engaged in a 
righteous cause. Let us acknowledge that they were courageous 
adversaries. The uncounted heaps of earth dotting this fair 
land bear witness to these facts. Let us hope that from these 
graves the settled conviction may be drawn that it is all in vain 
to attempt the dissolution of this Union, and that the God of bat- 
tles directs the armies of the nation. From these ceremonies may 
we catch increased inspiration to. move forward in the great mis- 
sion allotted to the American people, and may the century just 
dawning to be filled w-ith j'jeace and happiness and the uplifting of 
mankind everywhere throughout the universal earth ! 

Rev. Howard A. M. Henderson, an officer in the Confederate 
service and special commissioner of exchange, delivered an ad- 
dress, in which he said, in alluding to the Union soldier who began 
these services, that "his acts, even more than the lapse of years, 
did that which went to wii)e out the bitterness between sections." 

Gen. J. A. Arnold, of Kentucky, was again present and spoke 
briefly in renewed appreciation. 

After the services were over several incidents occurred worthy 
to be related. A battle-scarred veteran of the North, approaching 
General Henderson, recalled that the General had exchanged him 



THE MEMORIAL OF igoi. 6i 

out of Libby Prison. The General, of course, did not remember 
the man personally. 

An old lady, three of whose sons had given their lives for the 
Confederacy and one of whom slept in the shade of the inclosure, 
sat on the platform and witnessed the tributes to his memory. 

Dr. T. P. Shields, who met at a reunion in Memphis, Tenn., 
his old comrade, Col. D. B. Baldwin, of Virginia, prevailed upon 
him to attend these exercises, and he introduced him, stating that 
they met as strangers in Memphis and the fact developed that 
the Colonel was from the Doctor's old home in Virginia. The ac- 
quaintance was brought about in this way : 

The Doctor asked the Colonel : "Do you know D. B. Baldwin 
there ?" 

"That's my name," was the answer. 

The Doctor then recognized him, and demanded : "Don't you 
know me?" 

But the old comrade could not see through the veil that the 
years had hung, and Dr. Shields had to reveal his identity. 
' The Columbus Dispatch relates how Mr. W. T. Rogers, of 
Chattanooga, accompanied by his beautiful daughter, came to Co- 
lumbus with flowers sent by the N. B. Forrest Camp No. 4, U. 
C. v., and arrived too late for the decoration services. However,, 
the following day the flowers were divided and some of them 
were placed by Miss Rogers on the graves in the Confederate 
Cemetery and the rest were taken by Captain Rogers to Green 
Lawn Cemetery and laid at the base of the monument raised to 
the memory of the brave men in blue who have obeyed the last 
signal. 



~ CHAPTER VII. 

The Monument Unveiled — 1902. 

What SoLilhern Writers Who Were Present Said about the Occasion — 
The Chairman Tells Who Helped so Liberally with the Arch — The 
Oration of Governor Nash — The Reply of Judge D. E. Johnston, of 
West Virginia — The Speech of Judge D. F. Pugh — Captain Dinkins, of 
New Orleans, Delivers an Eloquent Speech — The Story of the Colored 
Men — Letter from Mrs. Randolph — Invitation to Go to Nashville — The 
Monument Turned Over to the Ex-Con federates — Happy Ending of 
the Author's Work at Camp Chase. 

The memorial arch, an enduring- monument to the memory of 
these Southern Americans, had been completed and the day for 
its unveiling was at hand. 

The Columbus Dispatch of April 13, 1902, said of it: 

The arch which. will be unveiled June 7 will be the first to be 
constructed by Northern people to mark the final resting places 
of Confederates who fought bravely for their convictions. 

Colonel Knauss's idea is to have an arch that will be an ever- 
lasting monument to designate the location of the graves. It will 
be situated seventy-five feet from the entrance to the grounds, 
which fronts on Sullivan Avenue. As shown in the cut, the me- 
morial will arch the large bowlder which for many years was 
famous as the only headstone for the two thousand two bunded 
and sixty bodies buried within the inclosurc. Several vears ago 
Colonel Knauss had a wooden arch placed over the bowlder, and 
on it was painted "Americans." 

The bowlder referred to above is seven feet in diameter and 
weighs approximately sixteen tons. It extends seven and one- 
half feet above the ground and several feet below the surface. 
From the top of the bowlder to the bottom of the keystone it is 
over eight feet. On top of the keystone of the arch is the statue 
of a Confederate private soldier in gray bronze. On each side 
of the arch there are large flower urns which set off the masonry 
in a very pleasing manner. 

There was great disappointment by the citizens of Columbus 
that Gen. J. B. Gordon could not be present to receive the monu- 
ment, but his place was ably filled by that eloquent Southern gen- 
tleman, Hon. David E. Johnston, Member of Congress from West 



THE MONUMENT UNVEILED— 1902. 63 

Mrginia, and the ceremonies of the day were a source of pleasure 
to many people throughout the broad land. 

If we dwell upon the incidents of that day, if the orations are 
considered at greater length, the reader will realize that the work 
of years was near the end ; and one cannot refrain from dwelling 
in the happiness of realized hopes. 

To those of us who bore a part in the war of the sixties the 
afternoon of life is well on. It will not be long until "taps" 
sound, and it is natural, therefore, that when memory leads us 
out where we see the panorama of the past we look first at the 
morning view, where are charging squadrons and smoking can- 
non and dying men. Then we turn away to a scene far different 
— a graveyard, low-lying mounds, bands playing softly, men who 
had charged upon each other with bayonets red-stained standing 
side by side with uncovered heads, placing flowers on the graves 
of the lonely dead. This last is the picture of our afternoon, and 
we love to linger over this event of 1902. If the first simple, 
unheralded service was creditable, then in this event modesty 
gave way to pride, and he who tells it gloried in the day. 

There is a Camp of Confederate Veterans in Columbus named 
for the immortal Lee, and no one protests ; there is a Chapter of 
United Daughters of Confederacy who wear tri-colored rib- 
bons, and no one shudders. These organizations are ready to 
take up the work and care for the graves of their dead. 

It is well that others tell the story of that day, and it is not 
necessary to draw exclusively upon home join-nals for the details. 
From Southern periodicals and papers we can learn all that is 
necessary to prove that the Southerner, who loves his friend as 
few people love and hates his enemies with unconcealed intensity, 
has overpraised the work done at Camp Chase. At the same 
time, the recipient of this praise cannot help but appreciate the 
kindly words and own that deep in his heart he is prouder of 
them than he can tell. 

A Huntington (W. Va.) paper says: 

The exercise incident to the unveiling of the arch erected at 
Camp Chase to the memory of Confederate soldiers buried there 
were simple, but beautifully impressive. 

Within the graveyard, which is surrounded by a stone wall, 
more than twenty-two hundred Confederates are buried, and this 
inclosure is all that visibly remains of the once terrifying prison 
camp. For a number of years Col. W. H. Knauss, a Union vet- 
eran residing at Columbus, has taken care of the ground and an- 
nually decorated the graves. He was almost mortally wounded 
at the battle of Fredericksburg and carries in his face a conspicu- 
ous scar of battle. 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



The war has long- been over to the gentleman whom General 
Gordon was pleased to designate as the "golden-hearted Knauss," 
who honors the Confederate dead as his countrymen. 

The memorial is a stone arch surmounted by the bronze figure 
of a Confederate soldier looking toward the South, and is a hand- 
some tribute. In the smooth surface of the keystone appears the 




MRS. J. H. WINUEK, 

of llic I'. D. C, who, with Mrs. John T. Giimble, assisted in iinveiliniJ 

tlie arch and statuo. 



word "Americans." A profusion of llowers from difterent sec- 
tions of the South were distributed on the graves, which were also 
ornamented by small flags. The ceremonies were conducted by 
Col. Knauss and consisted of songs, martial music, and addresses. 
The vocal music was delightfully rendered by a chorus of }Oung 
ladies from the Columbus schools. Among the speakers were 
Judge Pugh. Governor Nash, and Col. Kilbourne. Nothing oc- 
curred to mar the harmony and sympathetic good feeling man- 



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65 



ifested by the assembled thousands. Gen. John B. Gordon was 
on the programme to accept the monument on behalf of the South, 
but in his absence Judge David E. Johnston, of West Virginia, 
made a short impromptu address of acceptance. His words were 
from the heart, however, and thrilled the audience with their 
earnest and felicitous simplicity. 




MRS. jcHx T. G.^^:^.: v.. 



Grasping the hand of Colonel Knauss at its conclusion, he led 
that fine old soldier to the front of the stage and in loving and 
impassioned words told how now and forever hereafter the peo- 
ple of the South would cherish and revere his memory. 

This was the most charming and affecting incident of the day,. 
and was immediately followed by the hymn, "Asleep in Jesus,"' 
led by Mrs. Winder. The services were marked by a feeling' 
as spontaneous as though the dead of yesterday were being- 
buried. The whole affair was a unique expression of a reunited 

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66 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

country from which the last vestige of sectionaHsm is swiftly- 
passing. 

Mr. J. A. Allen of the Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat, wrote of 
the event : 

If Col. W. H. Knauss, of Columbus, Ohio, had not already 
established a strong hold on the hearts and aft'ections of the 
Southern people, the unveiling of the statue and arch at the 
Camp Chase Cemetery would have settled the matter. For years 
past we have been reading of Colonel Knauss and his patriotic 
and unselfish care of the graves of the Confederate dead near the 
site of the old prison, and the services Saturday furnished an op- 
portunity for the Democrat's representative to be on the ground 
and see for himself. 

The crowd at Camp Chase, viewed from its proper standpoint 
in the conferring of honor upon alien dead in a territory whose 
people ^yere hostile to the principles for which men fought and 
fell, was most impressive. Thousands of persons gathered with- 
in the gray stone walls inclosing the dust of the "Flowers of the 
South." It presaged that not impossible day when the Blue and 
the Gray will be honored alike. North and South; and, as a Co- 
lumbus paper put it, there will be mingled "love and tears for 
the Blue, tears and love for the Gray." 

The ceremonies were simple. Colonel Knauss, the father of the 
movement, acted as master of ceremonies, and from the stand 
which had been erected to the east of the arch explained briefly 
his connection with the work and introduced the different people 
on the programme, which follows : 

Assembly bugler, D. McCandlish, ex-Federal; "Star-Spangled 
Banner," Normal School; prayer. Rev. John Hewitt, ex-Confed- 
erate; music by Fourth Regiment Band; unveiling address, Hon. 
D. F. Hugh, ex-Federal ; "America," Fourth Regiment Band ; 
address of presentation, Gov. George K. Nash, ex-Federal ; ad- 
dress of acceptance, Judge D. E. Johnston, ex-Confederate ; song, 
"Lead, Kindly Light," Normal School ; address. Dr. Darlington 
Snyder; song, "Asleep in Jesus;" address, Capt. James Dinkins, 
ex-Confederate; poem, ■Mrs. Thomas \\'orcester, U. D. C. of 
Cincinnati; music, "Dixie," Fourth Regiment Band; address, 
Marcus B. Toney, ex-Confederate; music, "Nearer, My God, to 
Thee," Normal School ; firing salute, details from three compa- 
nies. Fourth Regiment, O. N. G., Capt. A. C. Reynolds; strew- 
ing flowers by the Daughters of the Confederacy and ladies of 
the U. V. L. and G. A. R. ; taps by D. McCandlish, ex- Federal ; 
Visitors' Escort, Ex-Federal Soldiers' Drum Corps, Gus Johns. 

Of the decoration attractions, it is noted that in the arch hung 
four baskets of living vines and a large floral piece sent by the 
Robert E. Lee Chapter. United Daughters of the Confederacy, in 
Columbus. A circular bed of geraniums in bloom was planted in 



THE MONUMENT UNVEILED— 1902. 67 

front of the arch, and on each side were almost numberless boxes 
and baskets of flowers sent from the South. The speakers' 
stand was also lavishly ornamented with wreaths and other de- 
signs. From all of the trees and shrubs within the cemetery 
inclosure depended strings of the famous gray moss that is pecul- 
iar to the Southland. 

No tribute is too splendid to pay this noble ex- Federal soldier 
for the work he has done at Camp Chase for the people of the 
South. One who has not been on the ground and talked with 
Colonel Knauss can have no idea of the obstacles which have 
confronted him and the obstructions that have been thrown in 
his way. But with a stout heart and a courage that marked his 
career at the front till "shot out of service at Fredericksburg," he 
has bravely, dauntlessly marched on and on until this latest 
splendid achievement is placed to his eternal credit in the hearts 
of the South and of every man everywhere who has a spark of 
patriotic pride and tenderness in his soul. Col. Knauss's work 
has required a strong moral courage united with an enduring 
physical strength. 

In the Jackson (Miss.) Evening Nezvs Clay Sharkley writes: 

I set out to tell you of the unveiling of a monument at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, to the Confederate dead of old Camp Chase. 

Well, I found the North fully reconstructed. I had my doubts, 
from the legislation that has burdened the statutes of the United 
States in discriminating against the South, whether they were 
genuinely reconstructed, but they are. 

Among the many friends who have aided in every manner pos- 
sible the work at Camp Chase, no one has been more untiring 
than Mr. S. A. Cunningham, proprietor of the Confederate Vet- 
eran. In the July number for 1902 there appeared an article cov- 
ering several pages giving a complete description of the affair. 
Although no doubt it has been widely read in the South, and by 
friends of the South elsewhere, the story of that day cannot be 
told without quoting from that issue. . . , 

Governor Nash, of Ohio, who presented the monument, said: 

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, and fellow-Americans, 
this is truly a happy day with me, when I can address you upon 
this sacred ground as fellow-Americans. Forty years ago we 
were divided into two hostile camps. To-day the scene is 
changed. We are not here as Federals, we are not here as Con- 
federates ; we are all here as Americans to do honor to our 
heroic dead and to do something, if possible, to make our country 
greater and better in the years to come. [Applause.] 

It is indeed a pleasure to be here. The ground, upon which 
we now stand is sacred. In it He the remains of two thousand who 



68 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

were of the bravest and best of the sons of the South, and here 
they have peacefully slept during all these years. It is a sacred duty 
which we perform when we come here to honor their memories 
and to do homage to their brave deeds. It is not only a sacred 
duty, but it seems to me that in doing this we are doing a splendid 
work for this reunited country. When the people of the North 
show their esteem for the brave men of the South who sleep in 
their midst, they are teaching a splendid lesson in patriotism. 

The days of strife are over, they are gone forever, and 
nevermore will they disturb our peace and harmony. I believe 
that it will be your aim [addressing the Confederates present] 
in all the days to come to aid in all ways possible the glory of the 
beautiful flag which we all love to-day. [Applause.] I know 
it will ever be your pleasure to uphold law and order in this 
country, and thus make greater and stronger the splendid insti- 
tutions founded by our fathers. Whenever we unite in meetings 
like this, we come together not as men who were once hostile 
but as men and women who love and honor this great republic 
and who will forever uphold its beautiful banner. [Applause.] 
This is no idle prediction. Less than four years ago our country 
was called upon to engage in war with a foreign foe. The sons 
of the Confederate soldiers rallied to the defense of our threat- 
ened flag and upheld her honor and glory just as bravely and 
just as readily as did the sons of the North. The sons of the 
North were rejoiced to have the sons of the old Confederates at 
their sides doing valiant service for their country. Some people 
at times despair of the future of this republic, but I have no such 
misgivings. I know that for the last thirty years the old Confed- 
erate soldiers of the South have faithfully taught the story of 
patriotism to their children. I know that the old Union soldiers 
of the North have been just as patriotic in their teachings to their 
children, and from these sources has grown throughout this nation 
a wonderful patriotism, a wonderful love for our country. This 
spirit will forever guard the honor of my country and my flag. 

I am rejoiced that we have among us to-day many ex-Confed- 
erate soldiers and their friends. To them I bid a most hearty 
welcome. I am glad that you are here, because you can see from 
this splendid assemblage that the people of the North honor with 
you the meniory of your old soldiers who sleep in this cemetery. 
] Applause.] I hope that you will take the story of it back to 
\our Southern homes, and inform your friends that the remains 
of the ex-Confederate soldiers in the State of Ohio are honored 
by the people of this State. [Applause.] In this sacred con- 
nection it gives me pleasure to present, on behalf of the State of 
Ohio, this splendid monument to the memory of your soldiers. 
This monument, builded of stone and bronze, will last for many 
years, but it will not outlive the memory of the brave deeds and 
the heroic men whose sacred ashes repose in this cemetery. 



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Judge David F. Pugh, Past Department Commander of the 
G. A. R. of Ohio, said in the unveiUng address : 

The beautiful and impressive custom of decorating the graves 
of the soldier dead originated after the Civil War and was inau- 
gurated in several Southern States, I believe, in the year 1866 or 
1867, by Southern ladies; and the fact that they decorated graves 
of unknown Union soldiers, as well as their own Confederate 
soldiers, gives it an additional historical and sentimental interest. 
They went out into the cemeteries and scattered flowers impar- 
tially over the unmarked graves of the Union dead and upon the 
graves of their own soldiers. The hearts of Northern people 
were touched and thrilled by this kindly act. We of the North 
are to-day merely following the unselfish and noble example of 
those women. Five or six years ago a fair was held in the city 
of Wheeling, W. Va., to raise money for the erection of a home 
for dependent Confederate soldiers of West Virginia. A Captain 
Johnson, an ex-Union soldier and officer, contributed a Chinese 
sword of curious workmanship, to be sold for the benefit of the 
home. In sending it to the managers he said it was all he was 
able to do for the home, and expressed the hope that God would 
bless the surviving veterans, both Blue and Gray. We here to- 
day, in our participation in this solemn and decorous ceremony, 
are moved by the same spirit which inspired and actuated Captain 
Johnson. 

The ablest, most skilled of the Union generals, General 
Grant, occupied a portion of his last days on this earth urging 
and impressing his countrymen to restore fraternity and love 
between the North and South ; and this advice was illustrated 
and illuminated by the unspeakable pathos of his death chamber. 
When he was serving his first term as President, Gen. Robert E. 
Lee visited the White House. He honored his old antagonist by 
giving him audience in preference to the Senators and Repre- 
sentatives in Congress who were in waiting and had preceded 
Lee under the inspiration of his motto. "Let us have peace !" 
When Lee surrendered, he refused to imitate the example of 
the Roman and Grecian generals by making a triumphal entry 
into Richmond. He would not permit any celebration of the 
victory by the Union army in- the presence of the Confederates. 
He spared the latter every humiliation. He knew that it was 
necessary to the consummation of the victory that the sur- 
rendered Confederate soldiers should become loyal citizens. He 
knew that the republic could not hold vassal provinces by the 
bayonet and survive. We simply honor his memory and observe 
his dying precept to-day by participating in the decoration of 
these graves and the dedication of this statue. 

One of the wisest acts — certainly the most magnanimous act — 
of President McKinley was his advocacy of a plan for the 



70 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

National Government to maintain the Confederate cemeteries 
and at its expense. It was only a reiteration of what he had said 
twenty years before at Oberlin, Ohio. In a memorial address 
there, speaking of the duty of the people of Ohio with respect 
to the graves of the dead Confederates in Camp Chase, he said : 
"On us, too, rests the responsibility of caring for their graves. 
If it was worth while to bury each man in a separate grave, or 
give him an honorable interment, is it not worth while to preserve 
the grave as a sacred trust, as it is, and as it is to us alone?" 
The line of action for us is, fortunately, simple. In the office 
of the Adjutant General of the State is a record of all these 
dead, with a diagram of the grounds, each grave being numbered. 
From this it is possible to find the grave of each man and to 
arrange the grounds in proper manner. Let this be done by the 
State. Let the Legislature provide for the oversight and care 
of these graves. 

President McKinlcy made two extended tours through the 
Southern States. The ex-Confederates by the thousands attend- 
ed his meetings and receptions, and cheered and applauded him. 
Nowhere in the South was he threatened by anarchists. His life 
was safer than in the North. When it became necessary to make 
additional major and brigadier generals for the Spanish War. 
this broad-minded President did not hesitate to put the stars upon 
the slioulders of those old graybacks, Generals Wheeler. Lee, But- 
ler, Oates, and Rossiter. When McKinley died, not the North 
alone, but the North and South — the whole nation, reborn, re- 
united — mourned his death and shed tears over his grave. The 
"kindly light" of his magnanimous example and teaching encour- 
ages and cheers us on to-day in paying tribute to the heroic Con- 
federate dead, who sleep in this Confederate cemetery. 

Just fresh from the battlefield of Shiloh, where I witnessed and 
heard two ex-Confederates, one representing the State of Ten- 
nessee, participate in the dedication of the Ohio monuments to 
the heroic Union dead who sleep there, and where I was thrilled 
by the royal eloquence of one of them, in which he honored our 
dead comrades, I have no doubt either of the propriety or the 
duty of an ex-Union soldier participating in the ceremonies of this 
occasion. We decorate these graves to-day, and we dedicate this 
statue, because the men who sleep here were brave men. because 
they nobly illustrated American skill and valor on the battlefields 
of the Civil War. Although one side was thought to be right 
and the other considered wrong, yet both sides were inspired by 
similar impulses and actuated by the same sincerity of conviction. 
The Civil War is without its twin in history. For the grandeur 
of its impost, the vastness of its resources, and the tenacitv of 
the combatants it has no parallel in the annals of war. Fought 
by men of the same blood, it demonstrated the endurance, the 
prodigious power, and the vast resources of the republic. It was: 



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not a war by either side against Chilians or Itahans, Spaniards or 
FiHpinos. It was only Americans who could hope to successfully 
overthrow the Union, and it was only Americans who were qual- 
ified to successfully defend it. The Civil War showed what kind 
of people inhabit this continent — all brave men and women. It 
demonstrated that the Anglo-Saxons on this continent, whatever 
might betide them on the other side of the ocean, had not degen- 
erated. Bunker Hill was easier to climb than Cemetery Ridge^ 
Missionary Ridge, or Lookout Mountain. During those four years 
Washington, sleeping on the banks of the Potomac, often heard 
martial footsteps like those of its own soldiers. On both sides 
there was unparalleled endurance, with fortitude and unselfish- 
ness, through a long and exhausting conflict. Such armies as 
were raised and maintained on both sides were wonderful ins 
their exhibition of soldierly attributes. That the Confederate sol- 
diers were gallant, that they were hard fighters, can be proved 
by every Union soldier who struggled against them in the fiery- 
front of battle. 

After the battle of Missionary Ridge I was attracted by the ex- 
treme youthful appearance of a dead Tennessee Confederate sol- 
dier who belonged to a regiment of Cheatham's Division, against 
which we had fought the day before. He was not over fifteen ' 
years of age and very slender. He was clothed in a cotton suit 
and was barefooted — barefooted on that cold and wet twenty- 
fourth day of November, 1863. I examined his haversack. For 
a day's rations there were a handful of black beans, a few slices of 
sorghum, and a half dozen roasted acorns. That was an infinitely 
poor outfit for marching and fighting, but that Tennessee soldier 
had made it answer his purpose. The Confederates who, half 
fed, looked bravely into our faces for many long, agonizing weeks 
over the ramparts of Vicksburg; the remnants of Lee's magnifi- 
cent army, which, fed on raw corn and persimmons, fluttered 
tlieir heroic rags and interposed their bodies for a year between 
Grant's army and Richmond, only a few miles away — all these 
men were great soldiers. I pity the American who cannot be 
proud of their valor and endurance. 

All the bitterness has gone out of my heart, and, in spite of a: 
Confederate bullet in my body, I do not hesitate to acknowledge 
that their valor is part of the common heritage of the whole coun- 
try. We can never challenge the fame of those men whose skilf 
and valor made them the idols of the Confederate army. The- 
fame of Lee, Jackson, the Johnstons, Gordon, Longstreet, the 
Hills, Hood, and Stuart, and many thousands of noncommis- 
sioned officers and private soldiers of the Confederate armies 
whose names are not mentioned on historic pages, can never be 
tarnished by the carping criticisms of the narrow and shallow- 
minded. On both sides the Civil War was prolific in that heroic 
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was the monopoly of ancient history, tradition, and poetry. Here- 
after it will not be necessary for any American, whether he 
be Blue or Gray, to read the stories and Icc^cnds of Grecian and 
Roman glory to inflame his imagination about heroes and hero- 
ism. There are other trophies than those of Miltiades. as some 




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one has said, to keep him awake at night. He can set his imag- 
ination on fire and keep himself awake by reading stories of equal 
interest and of equal valor about a hundred crimson battlctields 
of the Civil War. 

More than thirty-seven years have passed away since Lee and 
Grant met at Appomattox. Thirty-six seedtimes and harvests 
Jiave distributed their benedictions to the Blue and Gray alike. 
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privations ol which the North has no conception, the Southern 
people rebuilt, rehabilitated, their part of the country in a most 
phenomenal way. The waste places have been made to blossom 
like the rose, and old battle grounds are covered with verdure. 
Northern capital and vigor have married Southern energy and 
capital, their sons and daughters have intermarried, and the 
South is sharing in the universal prosperity. 

Much has been dcjne for the burial of ancient grievances and 
old grudges and for the cultivation of thoughtful love of coun- 
try. We are in the midst of an epoch of fraternal love and 
peace. The final victory at Appomattox was not a victory of the 
North over the South, but of the North and South over the South, 
it was as much their victory as ours. They were, equally with us, 
beneficiaries of that victory; and its blessings are just as precious 
to them as to us. The North and South have been welded into 
a more homogeneous nation by a common grief. ( )ur nation has 
been made richer by the blood and tears mingled together from 
both sides. What we tlKnight and said of cacli other in the war 
times is ncjw forgotten. Our flag, with not one star drop])cd from 
it, waves over both Rluc and Gray. 

On Decoration Day the flowers of the earth, so Ijlue and golden, 
make no distinction between the Blue and the Gray, but freely 
give their fragrance to both. No mother weeps the less fervently 
because her boy wore blue or gray. To-day in this cemetery 
the flowers will be scattered on the graves of Americans. Thirty- 
eight years have stilled the bitterness of the conflict. To-day we 
stand immeasurably a])Ove all resentment or revenge. 
^ I have just returned from a visit to two of the great battlefields, 
Cliickamauga and Shiloh, and it is no extravagance to say that no 
Union soldier who sleeps in the cemeteries on those battlefields 
speaks to-day from his grave of wrath or hatred toward the 
South, but their voices would mingle with ours for peace, frater- 
nity, and a reunited country. 

To-day, standing upon the serene heights of love and forgive- 
ness, and with an implicit faith in the Divine Forr^iver of all, we 
can see in this joint participation, and we can see iii this coopera- 
tion of Blue and Gray in paying tribute to the heroic Confed- 
erates sleeping here, a symbol' of the true American— the Union 
for which we have been hoping and praying for many years. 

In this final resting place of over two thousand Confederate 
dead Mr. W. P. Harrison has assi.sted Col. William 1 1. Knauss to 
erect this memorial arch and statue of a Confederate soldier. 
Both Mr. Harrison and Colonel Knauss should be honored for 
this appropriate monument. Tt is iheir votive offering to that 
brotherly kindness, peace, and love, and forgiveness for which 
there has been pleading and praying for years all over this coun- 
try. Only a few of us know how Colonel Knauss has toiled, 
struggled, and endured to make this monument and these condi- 



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tions a success. He has braved the criticism and censure of a 
few but bitter opponents of reconciliation. He has resisted the 
advice of those who have told him that it was not expedient and 
good policy for him to manage and superintend the decoration 
of these graves from year to year ; and I repeat that he should 
be honored for what lie has done. 
Let the statue be unveiled ! 




HON. D. E. JOHNSON. 



Judge D. E. Johnson, of Bluetield, W. Va., on behalf of his 
Southern comrades, made a worthy speech of acceptance : 

Mr. Chairman, unexpectedly and without preparation, I am 
called upon to respond to the patriotic and eloquent speech of the 
distinguished Governor of the Commonwealth of Ohio, present- 
ing, on behalf of his people, to our Southern people this splendid 
monument erected to the memory of more than two thousand 
brave men who wore the gray and whose ashes repose in this area. 



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These men who sleep here were Confederate soldiers (Amer- 
icans), who dared to "do the right as God gave them to see the 
right;" and so seeing and believing, they consecrated their lives, 
their all. Thev suffered and died for their convictions rather 




ROWLDER AND MEMORIAL ARCH. 



than prove false to the cause which they had espoused. Right 
or wrong, they suffered the horrors of prison life, eked out a mis- 
erable existence, and died in the belief of the justice and right- 
eousness of principles which they had been taught to hold as sacred 
and dear to them as life itself. I accord to those who wore the blue 



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the same right I here to-day claim for those who wore the gray — 
that is, that we beheved we were right ; and, whether right or 
wrong, the fierce and bloody struggle of four years, the terrible 
sufferings and sacrifices which we made, the memories of our 
honored dead, their splendid deeds of valor and heroism, we 
would not forget if we could, and we could not forget if we 
would. In calling to mind our own sutiferings and the great 
sacrifices we made to maintain our cause it is evident that those 
who opposed us were no less in earnest than we. They expended 
millions of treasure and poured out rivers of blood to uphold and 
maintain the principles for which they battled and contended. 
And, above all things else, we must not forget that in that great 
contest w^e were, and are still, all Americans, and that the splendid 
courage and gallantry, heroism and valor displayed by the men 
who sleep here are the common heritage of our American people. 

In accepting, on behalf of our people, this monument erected to 
the memory of these men, after listening to the patriotic and ten- 
der speech of Governor Nash, I am happy to say that I rejoice 
to find that, in a great measure at least, if not altogether, the bit- 
terness and prejudice engendered by the strife between the sec- 
tions have passed away, and we are again one and the same 
people, with one common flag, hope, and destiny, and that this 
monument is one among many tokens of that evident good feeling 
of patriotism and fratcrnalism that will, forever bind us together 
in one common bond of affectionate brotherhood. 

I cannot close without saying that he who above and beyond 
all others is more absolutely entitled to the lasting gratitude of 
our people, on account of his great love for our common human- 
ity, and who by his earnestness and activity in procuring the 
erection of this monument has endeared himself to our people by 
"ties stronger than hoops of steel," is a grand old veteran who 
wore the blue, and who for the cause he espoused spilt his blood 
and suffered all things, endured all things, even unto death — his 
coffin ready — and when the war closed devoted his- life not 
only to peaceful pursuits, but out of the love of his great soul 
and a heart filled with good red blood has worked earnestly and 
faith full v to bridge the chasm that so long had separated the 
North and South, and has labored unceasingly for the restoration 
of harmony, peace, and fraternal relations between our country- 
men. He to whom I refer now stands by my side. I grasp his 
hand as an indication of what I have said, and as a token of my 
love and esteem ; and now, on behalf of my people, who owe him 
a debt of gratitude perhaps greater than to any other man living 
north of Mason and Di.xon's line, I. from the depths of my heart 
[turning to Col. \\. II. Knauss] thank you; and now here with 
clasped hands we declare to this large assemblage, composed in 
part of those who wore the blue as well as those who wore the 
gray, that the war is over and that lasting peace is here to stay. 



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Colonel Knauss, allow me to say in conclusion — and I say it be- 
lieving that I bespeak the honest, sincere sentiments of our people 
— that they will not only to their latest day honor you and hold 
you and your kindly deeds in grateful remembrance, but that our 
children's children and generations yet unborn wnll bless your 
memory. 

Following the hymn. "Asleep in Jesus." Capt. James Dinkins, 




CAPT. TAMES DINKINS. 



of New Orleans, delivered an address which in eloquence is 
worthy to live after him : 

Although the people of the South did not bid me come, I know 
that I represent them to-day when I extend the hand of kinship 
and express my pleasure in meeting the people of the great 
State of Ohio — valiant in war and progressive in peace. The na- 
tion knows you well and has called your sons to high places on 
field and in council. 

The South shares the pride in your achievements and testifies 



7^ THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

to the quality of your manhood — tirst to pay the tribute of cour- 
age to those who once opposed, first to hail tlu grander brother- 
hood of the stronger Union, first to raise the rainbow arch above 
the sacrifice of strife. 

Our comrades dead are the living fire upon the altars of mem- 
ory, and your tender solicitude has taught all Americans that 
immortality's light perpetually hallows every grave where heroes 
lie, and that every death for duty was a hero's death. 

The beautiful custom of keeping green and glorious the sacred 
spots where soldiers sleep stirs patriotism wherever practiced. 
No section monopolizes it ; no sectional lines divide the reverence 
paid. 

In our own fair Louisiana are two national cemeteries : one at 
Baton Rouge, where rises the Capitol ; the other at New Orleans, 
close to Chalmette field, where Jackson gave undying force to 
the American doctrine to which Monroe afterwards gave undying 
fame. Our flag is still here. Under its folds sleep Union sol- 
diers from many fields ; under its folds for twenty years and more 
have women — our Southern women — strewn the flowers of 
Icve. Mothers and sisters there are in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Wis- 
consin, and other States whose hearts lie buried there — too far 
away for them to place their tokens upon the biers of their be- 
loved. Mothers and sisters there are in Louisiana who say : 
"These are our own ; their graves shall not be neglected." Their 
magnolias transplant the message of your lilies ; their roses clasp 
yours in the wreath of a nation's mourning, dewed perennially 
by a nation's tears. 

Confederates have gathered annually upon this spot, marching 
beside the other Grand Army, proud that the women of New 
Orleans have set the example to which more men bow their 
heads each year in the sight of the God whose blessings our 
banner begs. Only a few days ago we said "Amen" over your 
prayers there ; to-day you share our sorrow above the buried Gray. 

The people of the North and South have often held different 
views and opinions in the past, and will continue to do so in the 
future ; but the only serious disagreement between them was for- 
ever settled by war thirty-seven years ago. 

I am not one of those who tell you there is no East, no West, 
no North, no South ; but, on the other hand, I am proud of the 
distinctiveness of our separate sections, whose friendly rivalry 
is the corner stone upon which the nation's greatness rests. De- 
prive the Puritan in the East of his reverence for his ancient 
laws, and you destroy his happiness and his usefulness. Take 
away from the South her traditions, ideals, and legends, and 
you rob her of much of her glory. 

I would not change the well-defined accent of the Northern 
people, nor lose the soft, musical sound of the Southerner's voice. 
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individuality. They argue and quarrel, and have been known to 
fight ; but when one of our ships sank in a treacherous harbor, an 
electric spark flashed over all the land — one message, one signal, 
and that was "Union." The speed, the strength, the soul of 
that response blazed upon the world warning for all the future 
and settled forever any doubt that the scattered sons have come 
together. 

Forty years ago the Southern States, by common impulse, with- 
drew unto themselves apart. They believed that right and honor 
compelled them "to do so. They upheld that opinion as long as 
their means and resources permitted; but when the Confederate 
soldiers laid down their arms and returned home to begin life 
anew, they did so with the firm resolve to support the standard 
they had fought and which was their own again. 

They were not understood, however, and were compelled to 
bear and suffer in silence for many years ; but, thank God ! we 
stand to-day with our brothers of the other section, on equal 
grounds for a common cause in freedom's name. 

I believe I speak for the whole South when I say : "My head 
and my heart for my country — one people, one language, one 
flag." All nations may well envy the patriotic spirit, boundless 
as the air and resistless as the bounding oceans, which fills every 
home in the South. And every Southern home takes pride in 
the fact that this spirit is the spirit of the land. 

In an emergency never prophesied nor anticipated the United 
States was called on to lend a hand for humanity. We undertook 
to relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor, and the 
South was not backward in rallying to the call. Her sons sup- 
ported the starry ensign with all their might, bravely and glo- 
riously, and the stars shone together as they ever will, lending 
liberty new beauty, giving brotherhood a new name and govern- 
ment a new lesson. 

Martyrdom was the crown the angels placed upon McKinley's 
brow, a sign high in the heavens that bids our manhood break the 
iDonds of self and hasten the radiance of a world redeemed. It 
is beside his grave as well as the burial place of these, my breth- 
ren, that I stand to-day and repeat again the lesson of our poet, 
Father Ryan, gathered from the war-bruised flowers of faith : 

Give me the land of the wreck and the tomb ; 
There is grandeur in graves, there is glory in gloom. 
For out of the gloom future brightness is born, 
As, after the night, comes the sunrise of morn. 

And the graves of the dead, with the grass overgrown. 

May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne ; 

And each single wreck in the warpath of night 

Shall yet be a rock in the temple of Right. '. 



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We have tau.^ht it to our chiUlrcn. Vour children, strewing 
their wreaths alxjve the heroes to-day. are planting- the same 
seed of everlasting loyalty to principle. It was for principle, not 
for dissension nor for conquest, that these men gave their lives. 
It was this complete renunciation for country's sake that McKin- 
ley is pointed to as worthy our veneration and as insuring the 
nation's indissolubility. 

Capt. Marcus B. Toney. of Nashville, Tenn.. delivered an ad- 
dress replete with patriotic sentiment and abounding fraternity. 
The speech is not in print or obtainable, or it should appear with 
the other notable addresses of that occasion. The same is true 
of the speech of General Arnold, of Kentucky, who spoke tender- 
ly and beautifully, as befitted the occasion. 

A detail from the Fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, fired 
the soldiers' salute ; the Ladies of the Union \'eteran Legion and 
the G. A. R. accompanied the Daughters of the Confederacy and 
assisted in the pleasing and merciful duty of strewing the flowers. 
Presently Bugler McCandlish sounded taps, and the drum 
rolled. The drum corps was of old soldiers under the direction of 
Gus Johns, of the One Hundredth Pennsylvania. So ended that 
day, the memory of which lives and is as though it were yester- 
day. One can well believe it will not be forg-otten even in that 
endless to-morrow that lies beyond life's sundown. 

An interesting letter and newspaper clipping were received from 
Clarksville. Tex., from M. L. Sims, First Lieutenant of Company 
D, Forrest's Original Battalion of Cavalry, in which he expresses 
the highest appreciation of what has been achieved for the Camp 
Chase Confederate dead. He had arranged with Miss Mary 
Logan, of Louisville, Ky.. to procure the flowers in that city and 
jcxpress them in time for the dedicatory ceremonies. 

The flowers were sent as a tribute to all Confederate soldiers 
buried there, but especially to be placed at the graves of two 
faithful and unfortunate colored men — Haywood and Walters — 
if their graves could be identified. 

The following clipping from the Dallas Nri^'s will be interest- 
ing reading to all Confederates : 

The only comjjany from Texas in Forrest's Original Battalion 
was captured at the battle of Fort Donelson in February, 1862. 
The noncommissioned officers and men were sent to Camp Doug- 
las, near Chicago, and the commissioned officers were sent to- 
Camp Chase. These officers were L. L. Bailey, R. G. Lane, and 



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M. L. Sims. With them were two negroes — -Ilayvvcjod Goodloe 

and Walter . Haywood was the servant of John J. Goodloe, 

and Walter the servant of Sergt. John L. Jamison. 

Lieutenant Sims states: "After the surrender I advised these 
negroes and Ben, my servant, that we were prisoners ; that we 
no longer had the right to control them and could not protect 
them, and that they might make their escape either then or in 
the near future. Ben took my advice and succeeded in reaching 
his home. Haywood and Walter seemed terrorized by the situa- 
tion and remained with us. At St. Louis I again tried to get 
them to work their way home. They refused to do so and went 
with us to Camp Chase and were treated as other prisoners. In 
a few days they both died with pneumonia and were buried in 
the same cemetery in which the Confederate officers were buried. 
I went to the graves with the funeral party and chaplain and made 
a statement as to who they were and how they came to be there, a 
record of which was made, I think, by the Federal chaplain. Burial 
services were held and a headboard with the name placed by a 
Federal officer at each grave. When these men took sick they 
were placed in the prison hospital ; were given clean clothing, 
good beds, and received the same medical attention and nursing 
that the Confederate officers received. Lieut. (Dr.) R. G. Lane 
gave each of them his special attention, and Lieutenant Bailey 
and myself assisted in nursing them until they died. 

r)n June 25 a letter was received from Miss Mary Logan, of 
Louisville, explaining that she had sent the flowers. 

Among the many noble Southern women who have labored 
unceasingly for the Confederates the name of Mrs. N. V. Ran- 
dolph, President Richmond Chapter, U. D. C, is prominent. To 
this daughter of Virginia the author is indebted for many encour- 
aging and helpful words. Mrs. Randolph was invited to attend 
the unveiling service, but could not be present. She wrote from 
\'irginia Beach, saying: 

I am sure every Southerner, especially the women who have 
struggled so long to keep green the graves of their dead, will bless 
you for your beautiful tribute to our prison dead. The Chapter 
will take official action as soon as I return. You must feel proud 
that you have trampled prejudice under your feet; and no one 
knows better than I what you have had to contend with, and 
how bravely you have stood up for the Confederate prison dead. 

After Capt. Marcus B. Toney returned to Nashville he wrote: 

Dear Colonel: I want to express to you and to the G. A. R. 
boys my appreciation of the hearty reception given me. To say 
I enjoyed my visit would be putting it mildly. I was delighted. 
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82 run STOKY Ol' CAMI' CHASE. 

While General Gortloii was deeply interested in the work at 
Camp Chase, all correspondence upon the suhject was conducted 
by Adjutant General and Chief of Staff Gen. George jNIoorman. 

The letter received from him just after the ceremonies, and per- 
haps one of the last written to the author before he died, is repro- 
duced, with tender recollections of the friendly associations 
through the years of work in earing- for the t^^raves at Camp 
Chase. He wrote : 

I received a letter from General Gordon saying he was disap- 
pohited about perfecting some matters at the last moment so that 
he could go to Columbus, and very much regretted, that he was 
unable to attend. 

I was very sorry I could not be present, as 1 was myself one of 
the Camp Chase prisoners, and was paroled awhile in the city 
of Columbus, and afterwards sent to Johnson's Island. I knew 
Governor Todd well, and reported to him every day while I was 
on parole in Columbus. During that time I boarded at Mr. 
Harper's, just back of the Governor's mansion. He had two 
daughters, whom I remember well — Misses Hattie and JNIary. 

I was paroled by order of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary 
of War, for having given water to a wounded Federal soldier on 
the battlefield at Fort Donelson. 

I could have given you some reminiscences of Columbus at that 
time which would have been good reading for the present gen- 
eration, and particularly so, as I was one of the leaders in dec- 
orating the Federal graves at Chalmctte sixteen or seventeen 
years ago. The matter of decorating the graves of the opposing 
army is not new to me. 

The decoration of the graves of Northern soldiers was first 
done by our Confederate Veterans in New Orleans. With every 
good wish, your friend and comrade. 

Not only is the illustrious soldier, so long the Commander in 
Chief of the Confederate Veterans, gone to the bivouac eternal, 
but his chief of staff also. On account of our relations, his en- 
thusiastic helpfulness, his great ability, and splendid patriotism, 
the writer unites with the soldiers of the South in paying tribute 
to Gen. John B. Gordon, and withholds not his hand from writing 
of General Moorman. As one of you, men of the South, this 
friend who signed himself comrade shall not soon be forgotten. 

General Moorman's letter was answered by the writer as fol- 
ic ws : 

The exercises were perfectly satisfactory. All regret the ab- 
sence of General Gordon and yourself. All pronounce the arch 



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very fine and the statue as perfect as they ever saw. Two gentle- 
men from Mississippi, members of a committee looking- for a 
statue for their home country, declared it to be nearly perfect. 

I think I have done my work, and will now turn the matter over 
to the Confederate Camp and the U. D. C. Chapter. The cem- 
etery is in good condition, and there is an appropriation, recently 
made by the government, to rebuild the stone wall. The cem- 
etery will be in such condition, when repaired, that it will be an 
honor to the present generation; and I think now is the proper 
time for me to withdraw and leave it in the hands of the local 
Camp and Chapter. 

The Southern poet, Kobert Loveman, has written: 

"Wrath is a wrinkled hag, hell-born; 
Her heart is hate, her soul is scorn. 
Blinded with blood, she cannot see 
To do a (\qq(\ of charity. 

Love is a maiden, )oung and fair; 
She kissed the brow of dumb despair. 
Till comfort came. O, Love is she 
Whose other name is Charity !" 

In that stormy long ago we were "blinded with blood," but to- 
day we can see once more "to do a deed of charity." 

As we linger at the graves of those we love, loath to leave 
them in their loneliness, so we leave this portion of our subject 
with regret. 

It has been a labor of love, but it has been misunderstood, even 
in the South, in some instances. At home and abroad men have 
wondered at the purpose back of it all. 

It was unforeseen that the impulsive and warm-hearted people 
of the South would feel so deeply upon the subject. If criticised 
at home, the words of appreciation from unknown friends have 
more than repairl. The prayers of one widow, sorrowing yet in 
her Southern home, are more than recompense for the time and 
money spent. When alone oftentimes in the little cemetery to 
see if all is well, there is a feeling of comfort and content which 
forces the thought that unseen sentinels are whispering, "All is 
well ; all is well !" 

"We put fresh flowers on forgotten graves, 

Wc, who once wore the Union blue ; 
O'er their low tents the old flag waves — 

O'er these men of the .South, so true. 
Oft were our blooms bedewed with tears ; 
Unnoted they slept through all the years, 

Until at last the lone, dank banks 

Were garlanded by old-time "Yanks." 



CHAPTER MIL 
Odds and Ends. 

Planting Trees at Camp Chase Cemetery — An Incident of Concord, N. 
C. — Confederate Dead at Gallipolis — Official Correspondence Concern- 
ing the Cemetery — A Few of the Many Friendly Letters — The Return 
of a Confederate Flag — A Speech That Caused Comment — Insinuating 
Postal Cards — The Visit of Editor Cunningham — Visiting Camp Chase 
Cemetery in Winter. 

jVIention is made in the Introduction relative to the idea of 
planting trees in the cemetery at Camp Chase, and that these 
trees should come from the Southern States. This suggestion 
was made to Gen. George Moorman, General Gordon's chief of 
staff, who issued a circular letter which was sent to each Camp of 
Confederate Veterans. The trees came ; some were in good con- 
dition, while others were doubtless improperly removed from the 
native earth, so that they died soon after being replanted. Even 
if many of the trees died, however, the idea of having Southern 
trees to shade the graves of the men who died for the South was 
well worth trying. 

There being a Camp of Confederate Veterans in Columbus at 
this time, the work of planting them in the cemetery was turned 
over to them. 

Many beautiful and tender letters were received ir this connec- 
tion, worthy of a place in this book. That the reader may enjoy 
the sentiments expressed, some of them are here quoted. 

Supt. C. S. Douglas, of the Gallatin (Tenn.) Public Schools, 
wrote : 

In the Nashville American of February 27 ]\Iaj. G. B. Guild, 
U. S. A., who is now located in Columbus, graphically describes 
his visit to the Confederate Cemetery near Columbus. To you 
he ascribes all praise and much honor for the care and protection 
of the graves of the Confederate soldiers who lie slumbering in 
your midst. This letter was read at our last meeting of Cheatham 
Bivouac, and so magical was its effect, so grateful did the old 
comrades feel toward you, and so ready were they to assure you 
of their appreciation of your magnanimity that your humble 
servant was commissioned to write vou our sincerest thanks. 



ODDS AXD EXDS. 



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Your name is writtei^. on the reo^ister ot our l)ivouac, your 
nobleness of heart will be embalmed in our souls, and of your 
character we would write in living letters, "How true, how beau- 
tiful !" 

Gen. J. J. Dickison, Florida Division, U. C. V., Ocaln, Arites 
of flowers sent, and adds : 

May God bless you and yours! is not only the beautiful prayer 
in our division, but every one's heart in the Southland rings oui a 
benediction for you. 

R. B. Coleman, Major General Indian Territory Division, U. 
C. X., wrote from McAlester, Ind. T. : 

Your name shall be a household w^ord for all Southerners as a 
token of the service you have rendered the North as well as the 
South in caring for the Confederate graves at Camp Chase. 
Nothing could please me more than to shake the hand of one who 
is free from malice toward the men who fought for the right 
as their consciences understood it. 

From Greenville, S. C, James A. Hoyt wrote: 

The ten trees which we send you for Camp Chase have been 
taken from the grounds here by an ex-Confederate private, who 
with his own hands wished to render homage to the memory of 
his fallen comrades. With kindly regards and appreciation of 
your fraternal solicitude for our dead soldiers' graves, etc. 

A letter from Asheville, N. C, says about the trees : 

\\ith a hope that ma}' live and grow to be an honor to the Tar 
Heel State, from which they are sent, and to the generous project- 
ors of the plan of maintaining the hallowed ground into which 
they are to be planted, I am, yours most sincerely, 

James M. Ray, 
Brig. Gen. Comdg. Fourth Brigade, N. C. Div.. V . C. \. 

From Richmond, Va. : 

I deeply appreciate the sentiments expressed by you in your re- 
quest for trees from this State. R. E. Lee Camp No. i of the 
Confederate Veterans of Richmond, Va., has received from the 
city of Richmond fifteen trees, which have been shipped to your 
address. Thomas A. Brander, 

For R. E. Lee Camp No. i. 

From Booneville, Mo. : 

Let me assure you, my dear sir, that you have the sincere thanks 
of every ex-Confederate Missourian for your noble work in 
caring for the graves of the ex-Confederates buried at Camp 
Chase. Robert McCulloch, 

Major General Missouri Division. V' . C. \'. 



86 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

From Dallas, Tex. : 

The trees went forward yesterday. The express company for- 
warded them free of charge. Ben M. Melton, 

For Camp Stirling Price of the U. C. V. 

From Bluefield, W. Va. : 

I sent you by express twenty white pine trees for the Confed- 
erate Cemetery at Camp Chase. Best wishes for your success and 
long life. David E. Johnston. 

Some sending trees did not describe them, but as they grow 
many who visit Camp Chase can do so. 

On another occasion trees and shrubbery from the nursery 
were purchased by business friends in Columbus. On all occa- 
sions, when permitted, Mr. R. M. Rownd, postmaster at Columbus, 
and who was a member of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, gave money 
to assist in paying the expenses of the memorial services, and 
others offered to help ; but in most cases financial aid, except that 
received from the South, was declined. 

From Washington, D. C. : 

Thank you for your noble and generous interest and zeal in 
the care of the graves of the Southern dead at Camp Chase. 
Very truly, Thos. W. Hungerford, 

Chairman Ex. Com. Camp 171 of the U. C. Y. 

From Lexington, Ky. : 

Your generous care of our dead heroes will give you a warm 
place in the hearts of all of our Confederate Veterans. Frater- 
nally, John H. Carter, 

Adjutant General Kentucky Division, U. C. Y. 

A little story that is known to but a few at present is considered 
of sufficient interest to be told here. It gives an insight into the 
character of one mentioned here and demonstrates the good work 
done long ago. 

In 1865, during the time that Lee and Johnston's heroic but 
defeated legions were going home as best they could, a young 
cavalryman sought credit in the village store at Concord, N. C. 
The proprietor looked at the young man sharply, saying: "I have 
many requests from your people for credit." 

"I'm honest, sir. and I'll pay you," said the young man. 

"They all say so." answered the storekeeper. 

It looked as if the incident was closed, but the cavalrvman. 



ODDS AXD ENDS. 87 

after a pause, said: "You may not believe it. but I'll pay you every 
cent if you let me have the things I want. I have no money 
nearer than Ohio, and unless you trust me I must do without." 

"How much do you want?" 

"I do not know how long we will stay here ; it may amount 
to $20." 

"What is your name ?" 

"Robert M. Rownd, of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, sir." 

"I'll trust you." 

The regiment left Concord before being paid off, going to Lex- 
ington, some thirty miles distant. Pay day came at last, and 
Rownd went to Concord with the money to pay his debt. A 
friendship was born that day that meant something to the store- 
keeper in after years. 

The North Carolinian and the Ohio soldier corresponded with 
each other at long intervals. Finally the Concord merchant 
moved to Richmond, Va., and engaged in a manufacturing busi- 
ness. During the dark financial days in 1893 the manufacturer 
found himself in great need of money to tide through a crisis. 
He found that if he could weather the gale at that particular 
time he would be in easy circumstances ; and if not. he would be 
a bankrupt. 

With gentlemanly delicacy he spoke of the past and of Ills 
present situation. "I need very much more than twenty dollars," 
he wrote; "but if you could see your way clear to lend me the 
amount, I can say as you did, I am honest and will pay you every 
cent." 

It does not matter about the amount — it is told in four figures 
anyway — but a New York draft went to Richmond by return 
mail. 

Learning from one who had been in the Gallipolis (Ohio) Cem- 
etery that there were some of General Morgan's men buried there, 
a letter was written to a gentleman, J. M. Alexander, of that 
city, about the matter, to which he replied : 

. . . I have spent a good part of the day investigating the 
matter. I have known for years that three Confederates lie in 
the Pine Street Cemetery, but the old record before me fails to 
make any mention regarding them. I find that one hundred and 
fifty-eight Union soldiers have been buried in this cemetery, ac- 
cording to this record, yet one-half of those are marked "Un- 



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88 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

known" and only three of them have the year in which they were 
buried; so it is no wonder the Confederate graves have been neg- 
lected. Yet it is understood that three Confederates were buried in 
the southwest corner of the cemetery. Two of them, I find, died 
from wounds in the general hospital at this place, and it must have 
been in 1861. I am sorry there are no means of further identifica- 
tion. When we consider that so very many of the Union dead 
are marked "Unknown," we cannot wonder that, as the Confeder- 
ates were strangers, no record was made. 

At the last decoration, on May 30, I was in charge. After 
all the Union graves had been strewn with flowers, I marched the 
column to the place desigated as Confederate graves and had 
them covered with flowers, and, standing in the drizzling rain, 
made a talk of several minutes — not because they had been Con- 
federate soldiers, but because they were patriots and brave men. 
None but brave Americans could have fought and held out against 
such odds as did the Confederate army. I believe the feeling of the 
old soldiers of the Union army is of the kindest toward the Con- 
federates. 

Should you want to send markers for these three graves at 
any time, I will see them put in place. 

We find by reference to some old files that it was in 1886 
that an effort was made to have Camp Chase Cemetery receive 
.some care and attention. The correspondence was as follows: 

Adjutant General's Office, State of Ohio, 
Columbus, June 2, 1886. 
To His Excellency, J. B. Foraker, Governor. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report concern- 
ing the condition of the Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase, 
near Columbus. 

As requested by you, I have made a careful examination of all 
the records accessible pertaining to this burial place. 

The cemetery contains the remains of the Confederate soldiers 
who died while prisoners of war at Camp Chase, during the years 
of 1863, 1864. and 1865. About twenty-one hundred interments 
were made during that period. A few bodies were removed im- 
mediately after the war by friends to Southern burial grounds. A 
complete list of the names of the dead, with the numbers of the 
graves to correspond to the plat of the cemetery, together with 
said plat, are found among the records in this ofifice. 

The ground which comprises the cemetery was deeded to the 
United States Government by the executors of John G. Holloway, 
April 23. 1879, and the deed for the same is recorded in \'olume 



ODDS AXD ENDS. 89 

141, page 528, Records of Deeds of Franklin County, Ohio, and 
contains two and one-half acres. 

On May 15, 1886, I wrote the Quartermaster General, United 
States Army, concerning the condition of the cemetery, and sub- 
mit herewith copy of my letter and his reply : 

■'Adjutant General's Office, State of Ohio, 
Columbus, Ohio, May 15, 1886. 
"To the Quartermaster General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. 

"Sir: There is located near Columbus an old Confederate 
burial ground, in which were buried those who died while in 
prison at Camp Chase. These grounds have been neglected for 
years. The fences are all down ; the headboards have been dis- 
placed. 

"The ground is owned and controlled by the United States Gov- 
ernment. I write this communication to inquire if there is not 
some provision by which the ground can be restored to proper 
condition. 

"Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

"H. A. AxLiNE, xA.djutant General." 

"War Departme5^t, Quartermaster General's Office, 
"Washington, D. C, May 20, 1886. 
"Gen. H. A. Axline, Adjutant General, Columbus, Ohio. 

"General : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of the 15th instant, calling attention to the condition of the 
Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, and 
asking if provision cannot be made for the improvement or res- 
toration of these grounds, etc. 

"In reply, I beg to say that there is no appropriation that can 
legally be applied to the care and maintenance of this cemetery, 
and the Department has, therefore, no means with which to make 
the improvements suggested. 

"Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

"S. B. HOLABIRD. 

"Quartermaster General, U. S. A." 
With an acknowledgment, I replied : 

'T quite agree with Your Excellency that the present condition 
of the cemetery is a disgrace to civilization, and that humanity 
requires that even the burial places of our enemies in war should 
not be thrown into the commons and left for briers and brambles. 

"\^ery respectfuly, your obedient servant, 

"H. A. Axline. Adjutant General." 

It will be observed that the government had, no money to repair 
the place where rests the dust of those who died at Camp Chase 
Prison. But the then Governor and his Adjutant General did not 



90 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

let the matter rest until a bill was prepared, introduced in Con- 
gress, and finally passed authorizing a stone wall to be built 
around the cemetery. 

As sometimes happens with government work, the wall was a 
poor job and soon began to crumble. There was no one to look- 
after it, and many administrations came into power in Ohio and 
passed away, none seeming to think of the lonely cemetery where 
lay the Southern dead. 

As already stated, it was in 1895 that the writer became inter- 
ested in the place, and, among other things, called the attention 
of Mr. Foraker, after he became Senator, to the condition of the 
wall, with the result that an approj^riation at first of two thousand 
dollars was secured to rebuild it. At a subsequent session of Con- 
gress, this sum being too little, it was increased to three thou- 
sand six hundred dollars. A contract was made for the w^ork. un- 
der direction of Colonel Yeatman, Commander of the Columbus 
Barracks, and was comi)lete(l by the middle of Xovember, 1904. 

The wall, which is four feet high in front and five feet above 
the two and one-half feet of concrete foundation on the north, 
is built of Ohio limestone and cement, surmounted bv a broad 
coping of sandstone. It presents a strong, fine appearance, giving 
the impression of stability that will stand well the storms of time. 
Mr. Grant, the government insj^ector. says there need be no new 
wall built around the cemetery for three hundred years. 

In the fall of 1900 there occurred a pleasing event in which 
the writer participated: and while not germane to the text, it was 
one of those incidents that matlc friends of old-time enemies, and 
thus fits in here. 

Judge D. F. Pugh i)repared a bill, and procured its passage, 
authorizing the Governor to return the Confederate Hags and 
banners. The act is as follows: 

Whereas, The animosities of the Civil War are forgotten by 
the people of this nation, sectionalism is dead, and fraternity and 
good will prevail everywhere; therefore, 

Be it resolved. That the Governor of Ohio be, and is hereby, 
authorized and empowered to withdraw from the relic room of 
the Capitol building, from time to time, the Confederate flags and 
banners there stored, and return the same, or cause them to be 
returned to the survivors of the military organizations of the 
late Confederate army from whom they were respectively taken 
and captured. 



ODDS AND ESDS. 91 

The reunion of the Forty-Sixth Ohio was held in the town hall 
of Worthington, near Columbus, at which time the tattered battle- 
flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana was put into the keeping of those 
who had fought for it. The story is told by the New Orleans 
Picayune as follows : 

With other battle-marred and bullet-pierced relics of the Con- 
federacy reposing in Memorial Hall, there was deposited last 
evening the battle flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana Regiment. This 
sacred memento of the fighting days of 1861-65 was for thirty- 
six years in the possession of its captors, the Forty-Sixth Ohio 
Volunteers, who recently sent a gracious invitation to the "Boys 
in Gray" of the Thirtieth Louisiana to send a delegation to Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, for the purpose of being guests of the Forty-Sixth 
and at the same time receiving their old flag, as a token of the 
esteem, unity, and harmony which now prevail over all parts of 
the United States. 

The Louisiana veterans sent their delegates to Columbus, and 
the flag was returned to them and brought back to this city. The 
cherished colors were formally presented to the Army of Tennes- 
see for deposition in Memorial Hall. 

Secretary Brown read the minutes of the meeting of the Thir- 
tieth Louisiana survivors held September 14. 

At that meeting the invitation of the Forty-Sixth Ohio was 
read and accepted, and a committee was appointed to act in all 
matters pertaining to the proposed trip to Ohio. 

J. H. Brown. Judge J. U. Landry, and Harrison were ap- 
pointed to receive the flag. 

Mr. Brown then read the report of the flag committee, giving 
the particulars of the trip and of the reception, paying special trib- 
ute to such gallant Ohioans as Judge D. F. Pugh, Col. Wm. 
H. Knauss, Governor Nash, and Dr. Thos. P. Shields. The com- 
mittee was enthusiastic about Ohio and her generous, hospitable 
people. 

The meeting adjourned to Memorial Hall, where the Army of 
Tennessee was in session. Business was suspended as the sur- 
vivors of the brave old Thirtieth Louisiana entered the hall with 
martial tread and erect bearing, headed by Major Trepagnier and 
Private John M. Coos, bearing the flag. 

In giving a lengthy account of the engagement wherein the flag 
was lost by the Louisianians, Major Trepagnier says: 

. . . This position of the enemy's line was occupied by the 
Forty-Sixth Ohio Regiment, one of the best veteran commands in 
the Federal army, all being armed with murderous Spencer six- 
shooting rifles. They wisely reserved their fire until we w^ere 
close to their line, when they poured such a terrific and destruc- 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



tive lire at short range into our line that our men were actualb, 
mowed down without being able to do much injury to them, they 
being concealed from view by the thick underbrush in front of 
their works. In a short time the Thirtieth Louisiana was fear- 
fully cut up by this hailstorm of lead. Our gallant field ofificers, 
Lieut. Col. Thomas Shields and Maj. Charles J. Bell, had fallen, 
both shot dead ; fourteen line officers out of twenty present had 
also fallen, either killed or wounded. The color bearer and all 
the color guards were shot down ; only six members of the color 
company and only three members of the company on the left 
of the colors were uninjured. All of the officers of these two 
companies were either killed or wounded ; and when the brigade 
was ordered to retire from the field, the Thirtieth Louisiana could 
nuister only six officers and about sixty men. 

This flag, whose staff had been shattered by bullets, had 
changed hands as often as its defenders had fallen, until there 
was no one left around to protect it, and it remained on the 
bloody ground, close to the enemy's works, surrounded by the 
bodies of its defenders, and thus became a prize in the hands of 
the Forty-Sixth Ohio Regiment. 

We feel keenly the loss of our colors, and our only consolation 
lies in the fact that they fell without dishonor. We also derive 
great satisfaction from the spontaneous action of the members 
of the Forty-Sixth Ohio in their anxiety to return us our flag as 
a testimonial to the soldierly conduct of its defenders. These 
brave and chivalrous soldiers of the Forty-Sixth Ohio Regiment 
many years ago desired to return this flag, and were prevented 
from doing so only because they could not legally obtain posses- 
sion of it. 

It was the fixed intention upon the part of the writer to cease 
active work regarding the care of Camp Chase Cemetery at the 
conclusion of the unveiling of the arch and statue in 1902; for, as 
has been said, the care of the cemetery and the arrangements for 
memorial services were placed in the hands of the Daughters of 
the Confederacy and the local Camp of Confederate Veterans. 
In 1903 and also in 1904 the ladies in charge of the exercises 
called upon me for an address, to which I responded. There 
had been mischievous endeavors to prevent my further service 
in these Confederate memorial exercises. It is amusing to recall 
efforts by narrow-minded and prejudiced Federal comrades to 
prevent my being present on that occasion. For instance, one 
wrote: "Don't forget the 30th of May in your anxiety to decorate 
and care for the Confederate dead." Rude cartoons of me were 
sent by anonymous persons, but none of this interfered with my 



ODDS AND ENDS. 93 

even tenor. I considered the sources and took fresh courage 
with an approving conscience. It is most gratifying to have the 
■approval, years afterwards, of distinguished and noble men, of 
which the following is an illustration : 

President McKinley, in an address at Atlanta, Ga., about the 
close of the Spanish War, said : 

Every soldier's grave made during the unfortunate war is a 
tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were 
made, we differed widely about the future of the government, 
those differences were long ago settled by our arbitrament «'^f 
arms ; and the time has now come, in the evolution of sentiments 
and feeling under the providence of God, when, in the spirit of 
fraternity, we should share in the care of the graves of the Con- 
federate soldiers. 

Those men and their true followers who fought the battles of 
the war on both sides were glad the war was over. But those of 
both armies who managed in various ways to get on detail duty 
in the rear or around headquarters, so that when the army 
moved they could remain behind, were the ones to disapprove. 

It is good to be alive to-day; good to be able to look into 
the eyes and to grasp the hands of each other — the Blue and the 
Gray — when we recall how, a generation ago, we strove with 
each other under the lightning and the dim clouds of battle. To- 
gether the two armies — the Federate and Confederate — embrace 
the choicest of American men, and together they built high the 
standard of American courage. I think that we can claim that 
there are no better warriors in the wide world than in America, 
and no emblem of grander principles ever designed by man or 
God than our flag — the flag of our fathers. 

In several Southern places the Confederate Camps have joined 
with the G. A. R. organizations on May 30, our Memorial Day, 
and assisted in doing honor to c ur dead heroes. 

Allow me to announce that on May 29 I received from 
Mrs. E. K. Fritzlin, of Denton, Tex., a box of Southern Cape 
jasmine buds, to be given to the women of the Unin Veteran 
Legion, who have in the past assisted with the Confederate 
memorial services in this city, for them to wear while on their 
blessed work of strewing flowers over the graves of our Union 
dead on our Memorial Day. She said: "As a token of my 
respect for their noble and Christian work." 



94 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

I received also a box of white carnations from Mrs. Florence 
Tucker Winder, President of R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C, for our 
services at Greenlawn Cemetery in doing- lionor to our dead. 

Would to God there were luorc of this feeling, and that we, as 
Americans, could go arm in arm to these sacred places! We 
hope that when we join that brotherhood beyond, and meet the 
•Commander of the great majority, we will see more clearly. Just 
now an instance of the battlefield occurs to me : The dead and 
wounded were lying tog-ether. One boy thought he was dying. 
His thoughts going back to his home in the North, he 
saw his mother on her knees praying for him. He asked the 
one by his side to pray for him. The reply was: "I have never 
prayed in my life — don't know how." The dying fellow turned 
to the other side and saw that the one lying there was shot 
through the head and was speechless, but he said to him : "Can 
you pray for me?" The dying man slowly laid his hand on his 
heart, and then as he raised it slowly he pointed up, up to heaven, 
implying: "God is there. Give your heart to him!" Then both 
died. The one wdio never prayed lived and became a Christian 
man, and said he there gave his heart to God. May that same 
God who has spared us to this time bless you all ! 

Another event that I cannot refrain from mentioning was the 
large informal banquet, at the Great Southern Hotel in Columbus, 
to Mr. S. A. Cunningham, of Nashville, Tenn., editor of the Con- 
federate Veteran. Besides the guest of honor, Mr. Cunningham, 
there were present: Dan Emmett, of Mt. Vernon, author of 
"Dixie;" John Y. Bassell, Judge D. F. Pugh, Gen. H. A. Axline, 
Col. R. M. Rownd, Mayor Sam Black, Judge Todd Galloway, 
Thomas E. Knauss. W. H. Holliday (County Auditor), S. N. 
Cook, D. B. Ulrey, J. L. Porter, C. L Roth, Rev. T. G. Dickson, 
Henry Briggs, Capt. \W . B. Albright, Dr. Thos. P. Shields, John 
H. Levy, John Grim, S. A. Humphries, Thos. J. Davies, W. J. 
Snyder, J. H. Crampton, and representatives of the city papers. 
Several of the foregoing were prominent Union veterans, while 
several others were much-esteemed Confederates. 

The inner man having been satisfied, the toastmaster said: 

The Camp Chase Association was formed by a few 
men, some of whom fought in the Union army and some in the 
Confederate army, and some of them are here to-night to break 
bread with our friend and guest from the South. 




S. A. CUNXIXGHAM, EDITOR COXFEDERATE VETERAX. 
(Sliowing tlif Saiii Davis overcoat.) 



96 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The object of our association is to take care of the neglected 
graves of Americans who fought for what they thought was right 
and, as American heroes, sacrificed their Hves for their principles. 
They prayed to the same God that we did, and in the judgment 
day must answer to the same God. 

It is a token of our good will toward and respect for our South- 
ern friend that we come together to spend a social hour in getting 
better acquainted. 

Our guest, the editor and publisher of the Confederate Vet- 
eran, is not here to increase his subscription list, but to visit the 
burial place where many of his comrades rest. I am sure he will 
tell his people at home that we are civilized and live in the Lord's 
land, and show respect to the living and the dead. 

Among those who spoke that evening were Mayor Samuel 
Black, Gen. Axline, J. Y. Bassell, Dr. Dickson, and Judge Pugh. 
In response, Mr. Cunningham graciously thanked those present 
for the honors conferred, and said that it had impressed him 
more than any other incident in his life. His work for the last 
five years had been in the line of this meeting. He was grateful 
for the spirit manifested by the Union soldiers. 

He said no section could have regretted the death of Lincoln 
more than the South, and he knew that many Southern men and 
women shed tears at the death of Garfield. He was profoundly 
impressed with the attention given the graves of the soldiers at 
Camp Chase, and expressed the gratitude of his people for it, 
knowing that the South would thoroughly appreciate it. He 
appreciated the fact that the Federal Government had built the 
wall around the cemetery, and said that it must be repaired. 
While the Southern people revered the Confederate flag, yet it 
should be draped in crape, as he had it in his publication — the 
Confederate J^cteran. He was glad that the war was ended, and 
said that all the South would be grateful to the Northern people 
just as long as they realized that the war ended in 1865. 

In the Confederate Veteran for December, 1897, there is a 
complete and perhaps flattering account of the event, which was 
well appreciated by every Northerner who read it. We will con- 
clude the story of that evening b}- quoting from the Confederate 
I'eferan. 

When the guests had dined in the superb hotel, the Great 
Southern, Col. Knauss, the master of ceremonies, startled nearly 
everybody by stating that there was present a gentleman who was 
a soldier in the United States Armv before anv one at the table 



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97 



was born — Daniel Decatur Emmett, the author of "Dixie." The 
applause was so general that Mr. Emmett rose to. his feet when 
called upon for a speech, but he said he must be excused. The 
Vvriter, knowing how exquisitely he could sing "Dixie," urged 
that he sing a stanza of it. He said he could not unless all joined 




DAN EMMETT, AUTHOR OF 'DIXIE. 



in the chorus. There was a quick, hearty assent, and the Grand 
Army veterans joined with the Confederates in the spirit of the 
great tune. General Axline showed his appreciation of "Dixie" 
by saying: "We should never have let you Southerners have 
'Dixie.' It added fifty thousand soldiers to your army." 

Mr. Cunningham went to Camp Chase Cemetery, but the chill 

of our winter lay over it. The stately elms waved their bare limbs 

helplessly in the blast from the northwest. One could wish that 

it had been summer when he first looked upon the spot where 

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98 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

these men of the South had slept so long. Nature smiles even in 
the graveyard in summer, and it would not have seemed so lone- 
some. The birds would have kept the dead company. 

"We care not whence they came, 
Dear in their lifeless clay ! 
Whether unknown or known to fame, 
Their cause and country still the same; 
They died — and wore the gray." 

• — Father Ryan. 

Many letters have been received by the writer from friends 
throughout the South, dating back to 1897, and each year growing 
in number. The later letters are not less interesting than those 
received in the beginning. The earlier friends wrote again, and 
new friends added strength and cheer by their expressions of ap- 
preciation. 

Many and cordial have been the invitations for the writer to 
visit the South, and he regrets having been unable to show his 
appreciation. He quotes testimonials from Tennessee : 

From L. T. Dickinson, Adjutant N. B. Forrest Camp No. 4, 
U. C. v., Chattanooga, Tenn. : 

Col. W. H. Knaiiss. Columbus, Ohio. 

Dear Comrade : Your name has been a household word in our 
company for several years. As the years roll by we appreciate 
more keenly the noble and patriotic work done by you for our 
sacred dead. In recognition of your generosity, we have made 
you an honorary member of our company. I take pleasure in in- 
closing your certificate of membership. 

The papers you sent, giving an account of" the dedication of 
your arch, were duly received and presented before the Camp 
last night ; also the picture of the arch and a portrait of your- 
self, for which I am instructed by the Camp to thank you. Your 
picture will be framed and hung upon the wall. 

From Nashville, Tenn. : 1 

At a regular meeting of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, Association 
of Confederate Soldiers, a circular from the headquarters of the 
United Confederate Veterans was read, calling attention to the 
fact that on Saturday, June 14, 1902, Col. Wm. H. Knauss, of 
Columbus, Ohio, would have unveiled and dedicated a monument 
over our Confederate soldiers who are buried at Camp Chase; 
moreover, that he had for years had these graves annually strewn 
with flowers. 

Thereupon the president appointed a committee, which sub- 



ODDS AND ENDS. 99 

rnitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were unani- 
mously adopted : 

"Whereas Col. Wm. H. Knauss, by his acts, has proven himself 
to be a true Christian gentleman and patriot, and has cared for 
th- graves of our comrades when no one else dared do so; there- 
fore, 

"Be it resolved, by Frank Cheatham Bivouac, That the thanks 
of this association be, and are hereby, extended to Colonel Knauss 
for his noble and self-sacrificing acts in honoring our Confederate 
dead. 

"In testimony whereof the Bivouac has caused these ^resents to 
be signed by its president and secretary, and attested with the 
seal of the State Association. 

Gideon H. Baskette, President; 
I QfjrgL John P. Hickman, Secretary; 

M. B. Toney. Recording Secretary." 



CHAPTER IX. 
Visiting the South. 

A Trip to New Orleans Mardi Gras Time — An Unlooked-For Reception 
—What the Crescent City Papers Said— Great Bouquets of Roses by 
the Ladies— The Confederates Present the Stranger with a Fine Gold 
Badge— Eloquent Speech of Captain Dinkins— An Editorial— Going to 
Nashville— A Fourth of July Event— Meeting Friends Both Blue and 
Gray— Guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Toney— A Remarkable Camp 
Fire — Well Repaid. 

I WOULD be ungrateful and unworthy of the high honor paid 
nie by my Southern friends at various times and places did, I not 
make pubHc recognition of their cordial greetings and unstinted 
hospitality. I regret exceedingly that I could not accept many 
invitations to visit the homes of friends whom I have never met. 
I shall mention an invitation that I accepted for myself and wife — 
to spend the 4th of July, 1902, in Nashville, Tenn. I had made 
a visit to New Orleans, the quaint old metropolis of Louisiana, in 
February, 1902. I did not anticipate the reception I met ; it was 
overwhelming. There is a foolish song that most of us have 
heard that runs : "There are moments when we wish to be alone." 
There were moments at New Orleans on the evening of February 
13 when I wished to be alone — alone until I could find voice, 
which somehow had left me; alone until I could see without blind- 
ing tears. Not until I leave earth will I forget that night, and 
not then if I am permitted to think of things terrestrial. How 
could I be expected to forget such a night as that, at Memorial 
Hall, when eloquent words laden with affection, when armfuls of 
magnificent roses and other fragrant flowers, were showered upon 
me, a stranger within their gates ? 

Registered at the St. Charles, I met General Moorman just as 
lie was leaving the city ; but he had evidently posted a number of 
his comrades, for it was not long until inquiries were being made 
at the hotel for "the man from Columbus, Ohio." At dinner a 
gentleman informed me that a crowd of both ladies and gentle- 
men were waiting to meet me. I explained that I was • weary, 
but that I would be pleased to meet them the next day. 



VISITING THE SOUTH. loi 

I hesitate to tell of that next evening at Memorial Hall. To 
the plain business man, plodding on in the usual prosaic way, 
ovations are rare. I may be forgiven, then, for the seeming 
vanity of telling the story. It is also due the splendid men and 
glorious women of New Orleans, and I desire that those who live 
after me shall know of that eventful evening which is as indelible 
with me as is the event of the bloody battle of Fredericksburg 
(where I was shot down) . And this is the part of it so beautiful- 
ly strange : it was men of the South who put a bullet through my 
face that marked me for life, and it was Southern men and women 
who forty years after wove garlands for me and made a night of 
hand-clasps, of flowers, and of welcoming words. Such is the 
character of this nation of ours ; such is this land of ours. 

It was Mardi Gras week, and the city was full of joyous people 
watching the ever-shifting but ever-brilliant pageant. In every 
city there is a trust, a close corporation, known as society, and in 
New Orleans this unincorporated corporation was busy about 
Mardi Gras time. In that proud old city there were none nearer 
the throne of that mystical monarch, the ruler of society, than the 
majority of those in Memorial Hall. They had turned aside, 
however, from courtly gayeties to visit for an hour with a plani 
old "Yank." What is written is written ; if to my confusion, it 
is for their glory. Even in the midst of that' crowded, joyous time 
the New Orleans Daily Picayune gave, on the morning of the 
J4th, nearly one entire page to the event at Memorial Hall. 

With the egotism of love — love for these warm-hearted stran- 
gers — I copy the headline of the Picayune that morning : 

CONFEDERATES HONOR A 

HERO WHO FOUGHT THEM 



But Who Recognized His Foes as Americans Who Became 
His Brethren Again, and Made the Care of the 



Graves of Southern Soldiers in Neglected Places His Special Care 
Until Others Rallied to the Cause of Proper Protection. Colonel 
Knauss, of Columbus, Ohio, Given a Reception at Memo- 
rial Hall and Presented with a Medal. 



102 



THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the Ladies' Confederated Me- 
morial Association, called the meeting to order. The hall was 
filled with ladies and ex-Confederate soldiers when one of the 
ladies asked Capt. J. C. Dinkins to escort me to the platform. 
As we walked up the aisle the audience applauded heartily. The 
Captain presented me to Mrs. Behan, Mrs. Aldin McLellan, and 
Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith. On the platform with the ladies were 
Gen. W. L. Cabell, of Texas, and others. 




MRS. W. J. BEHAN. 



Mrs. Behan delivered a brief and most generous address. She 
concluded by saying: "He did this work, and now we feel that he 
is one of us." Taking me by the hand and turning to the audience, 
she continued : "I now take pleasure in introducing to you William 
H. Knauss, of Ohio." I was about to reply when she placed in 
my hand a magnificent bunch of flowers, at the same time alluding 
to the flowers placed on the graves of the dead at Camp Chase. 




MRS. J. PINCKNEY SMITH. 



I04 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The proceedings had reached that point where I began to feel 
that there was something the matter with my throat when, hap- 
pily, Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith arose and claimed the right to ad- 
dress me, as she was the first woman in New Orleans to send 
fiowers from that city to me for the Camp Chase Cemetery. 
Then she presented me with a large bunch of American beauties. 
Captain Dinkins came forward then and said : 

During the four years of desperate struggle between the 
North and the South there died in the Federal prison at Camp 
Chase, Ohio, 2,260 Confederate soldiers, who were buried within 
the prison limits. Those devoted men, separated from comrades 
and friends, could have regained their liberty, and doubtless many 
of them would be living to-day, had they taken the oath of alle- 
giance to the Federal government; but, rather than yield the 
opinions which they believed were guaranteed by the Constitution, 
they gave up their lives as a sacrifice to principle. Their bodies 
lie in Northern soil, and for thirty years we had no record of their 
resting place. Far removed from those whose love' and teachings 
made them what they were, their graves remained unmarked un- 
til finally one of that mighty host which opposed them (ah, I 
may say, the greatest of that mighty host), regardless of the 
jealousies and prejudices of his neighbors, determined to perpet- 
uate their deeds and their glory ; and to-day, thanks to his cour- 
age, his munificence, and his patriotism, it is his pleasure to 
have sweet flowers tenderly placed on them every year. 

They were Americans, who, believing they were right, did not 
hesitate between sacrifice and personal safety. Having that sense 
of appreciation which only a patriot can feel, that great soul pres- 
ent here to-night began the work which he has so successfully 
pursued. We are assembled to do him honor, and to acknowledge 
the obligations we feel for his unselfish deeds, and his noble ex- 
ample of an American which we are proud to recognize and to 
follow. 

It has been truthfully said that the greatest happiness is derived 
from contributing to the pleasure of other people ; therefore 
Colonel Knauss mtist enjoy much satisfaction, because the people 
of the South will ever hold him in grateful remembrance. And T 
can assure you, my dear Colonel, that these people, representatives 
of the best social condition, whose guest you are to-night, convey 
the sentiments of all the Southern people in tendering to you the 
warm and sincere expressions of admiration and love. 

It may be justly said that the Southern people are generous in 
their love. No section is superior to them in devotion to duty ; 
and as patriotic American citizens, whose record in war and in 
peace will forever be maintained, whose conduct on the battlefield 



VISITING THE SOUTH. 105 

can never be excelled, whose love for the traditions of the South 
will continue to descend from parents to children, and whose loy- 
alty to the flag is unsurpassed, they are deeply sensible of the ob- 
ligations they owe Colonel Knauss. 

Then addressing him directly, Captain Dinkins continued : 

These obligations they have no desire to cancel; but, moved 
by a common impulse, the Confederate soldiers of New Orleans, 
their wives and daughters, created this beautiful memento which 
they now present to you, sir, with the hope that your life may be 
spared for many years, and with prayers that finally the great 
Captain may crown you with a wreath immortal. 

A New Orleans daily paper, in describing the event and the 
badge, said : 

All of the Confederate Veteran Camps participated in the re- 
ception and presentation of the medal, which is a very handsome 
and costly one. It is made of i6-carat gold, about the size of a 
silver dollar, and suspended from a crescent, to which is attached 
the coat of arms of Louisiana, and on the face of the medal is the 
Confederate flag, stars and bars beautifully enameled, with "W.. 
H. Knauss" on the bar between the crescent and the medal. On 
the reverse side is the inscription : "In appreciation of the notable 
care of our comrades' graves at Camp Chase, Ohio, the Confed- 
erate soldiers of New Orleans present this memento to Col. W. H. 
Knauss, February 13, 1902." 

Finally the time came when I had an opportunity to thank them 
for their graciousness and their great kindness. It matters not 
what I said. I recall that I reviewed what had been done at 
Camp Chase, and that they were pleased when I told how Miss 
Osgood, a teacher in the public schools, had trained one hundred 
and fifty children to sing on one memorial occasion, and how the 
Httle girls took flowers from the platform and strewed them upon 
the graves of men who had died far away from home, far from 
those they loved. From the audience came bouquets until they 
were piled around me. There were many kind and beautiful 
things said and many gracious attentions shown me. I mentally 
see the picture of that scene over and over, with its soldierly men 
and beautiful women, and I catch the perfume of the flowers, and 
with its glamour I wonder how and why it all came about. 

The New Orleans daily papers commented upon the event edi- 
torially. Without comment on my part, or apology for doing so, 
I reproduced the sentiments expressed by the Picayune and 
Times-Democrat. 



io6 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

In the introduction to a five-colunm article descriptive of the 
meeting at Memorial Hall, the Picayune says : 

The reception given Col. W. H. Knauss, of Columbus, Ohio,, 
last night by the ladies of the various Confederate associations of 
the city, which was participated in by the Confederate veterans of 
the various Camps, was a notable affair. Though the attendance 
was confined almost, if not quite, to the members of the Confed- 
erate organizations, there was a large gathering, and it represent- 
ed the best social and. intellectual elements of the city. 

Colonel Knauss has been so long honored and admired for his 
care of the graves of Confederate dead at Camp Chase and John- 
son's Island, in Ohio, that many have desired to show their appre- 
ciation of his service to the South, and he has been known as a 
friend, even though never seen. He came to New Orleans to the 
carnival, but has been so quiet that not many people knew of his 
presence ; but after the veterans and the ladies found it out, he 
was "captured by the ladies," as he expressed it. 

One of the chief incidents of the evening was. the presentation 
of a beautiful gold medal by the veterans of all the Confederate 
associations. Colonel Knauss did not know about that part of 
the programme, and it was hard to decide whether he was most 
delighted with that or the magnificent bouquet of white roses 
presented by the Daughters of the Confederacy. 

The Tillies-Democrat editorial of February 15 said of "An 
American Patriot:" 

We had occasion a day or two ago to emphasize the point made 
recently by Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, that there are va- 
rious, though in no sense conflicting, ways in which men who 
love their country may manifest their patriotism. "Some men 
show their love for the flag of their country by protecting it from 
violence," said Senator Hoar ; and it is a noble thing to do. Other 
men show their love for the flag of their country by keeping it 
pure and preventing it from becoming a symbol of tyranny and 
injustice. The Senior Senator from 5lassachusetts was inclined 
to think that the latter phase of patriotism was quite as honorable 
as the former. It is certain that all temperate, thinking American 
citizens will sustain him in the admirable point he makes. It may 
be said, indeed, that patriotism in its highest and best form is that 
intelligent love of one's country which supplements the willing- 
ness to die that the nation may live with the determination that 
the nation's life shall be animated by the philosophy that "He who 
ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." It is 
only when the positive force is supplemented by what might be 
called the negative force that love of country becomes a passion 
the noblest known to the human heart. 

There are millions of men in this country of ours who, aroused 



VISITING THE SOUTH. . 107 

by the ardor of conrtict,- would step with jubilant feet the n'.ouicnt 
the war drum might throb ; and there are millions of other citizens 
who, in the quiet of peaceful industry, each day illustrate the vir- 
tues of courage and constancy, which only and which alone make 
a people great. The citizen of finest fashioning, however, is he 
who may pass from the calm of peace into the storm of war and 
from the storm of war return once more to quieter days, and 
withal keep his conscience unseared, his mind unprejudiced, and 
his spirit sweet and unspoiled. The kind of patriot we have in 
mind it has been the pleasure of the people of New Orleans to 
welcome here within the last few days and, out of the abundance 
of their kindly hospitality and fraternal feeling, to honor with a 
tribute of their respect and their affection. 

It is hardly necessary to add that the gentleman to whom we 
refer is Col. William H. Knauss, who while in the Federal army 
almost lost his life on the battlefield of Fredericksburg, and wha 
after the close of war devoted his time and his attention to an 
unsolicited labor of love in caring for the graves of Confederate 
soldiers who during the conflict died at Camp Chase and were 
buried in a cemetery near Columbus, Ohio. The simple story 
told by Colonel Knauss in his talk of Thursday evening at the 
Memorial Hall was one which, so long as man is man, can never 
fail to move the human heart. It was eloquent of the one touch 
of nature that makes the whole w^orld kin. It illustrated the 
larger significance of Appomattox. It taught that the surrender 
of the Confederate soldier meant more than the emancipation of 
a race, more than the political welding together of separate and 
individual States. It meant that with the echo of the last gun 
should die every ignoble prejudice and memory; that beneath 
the repelling features of war should be discerned the redeeming 
nobleness of both Federal and Confederate ; that a reciprocal con- 
fidence should solidify and purify our political life: and, finally, 
that as one nation we should become one people. 

This is the message fresh brought to us from Ohio by this gal- 
lant Union soldier ; and in contemplating not only the words 
spoken by Colonel Knauss, but also the man who spoke, the peo- 
ple of New Orleans pause for a moment to listen and to applaud — 
"to do him honor," as Captain Dinkins said, to acknowledge the 
obligation we feel for his unselfish deeds and for his noble exam- 
ple of an American which we are proud to recognize and to fol- 
low." We are quite sure that among the men who wore the gray 
or among their children may be found not one whose heart does 
not echo another sentiment perfectly expressed bv Captain 
Dinkins in presenting Colonel Knauss with a gold medal. 

When I visited my good Southern friends at Nashville in July 
of that same year, in the beautiful capital of Tennessee, every 
courtesy that generous hearts could conceive or willing hands 



io8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

execute awaited me at all times. Mrs. Knauss and myself were 
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Toney, at Vauxhall Place, and 
enjoyed the hospitality of these good friends during our stay. 
Our friend and comrade, Mr. S. A. Cunningham, of the Confed- 
erate Veteran, Mr. Toney, and others met us at Bowling Green, 
Ky., escorting us to Nashville. 




MARCUS B. TONEY. 



When these gentlemen explained what had been planned for 
our entertainment, I was deeply moved. Not only did the cx- 
Confederates seek to make this one of the most beautiful visits of 
my life, but my comrades of the G. A. R. also joined heartily in 
making the occasion pleasant. 

A Nashville paper of June 29 said : 

It will be a pleasure to old Confederates generally, and especial- 
ly to the committee of Frank Cheatham Bivouac appointed to in- 



VISITING THE SOUTH. 



109 



vite the Union soldier, William H. Knauss, of Columbus, Ohio, to 
their Fourth of ]\\\y celebration at Cumberland Park, to knoAV 
that he has decided to come. He wired his acceptance yesterday. 
Colonel Knauss is now looked upon as guardian of the graves of 
all Confederate dead buried at Camp Chase. He comes to join 
the camp fire to be held at Cumberland Park, and will be the guest 
of the Confederate Bivouac. 

The Nashville G. A. R. Posts are, however, claiming the right 
to show their esteem and affection for Colonel Knauss, and with 
this end in view the Commander of George H. Thomas Post, N. 
D. Higley, has appointed a committee to join the Bivouac and 
meet him at the depot on arrival. 

The following programme will be carried out at the camp fire : 
The Blues — "The Confederate Dead at Camp Chase," Col. W. H. 
Knauss; "The Army of Tennessee," Dr. N. D. Higley; "Gen. 
George H. Thomas," Gen. G. P. Thruston ; "Nashville During the 
War." A. W. Wills; "Nashville After the War," John Ruhm. 
The Grays — "The Confederate Private," G. H. Baskette ; "Prison 
Life in the North," B. M.- Hord ; "Reminiscences — Generals Lee 
and Jackson," M. B. Tonev ; "The Twentieth Tennessee In- 
fantry," Dr. W. J. McMurray; "The Tactics of 1861," Theo. 
Cooley ; "The Confederate Veteran," S. A. Cunningham. 

The Nashville Banner of July 4 said : 

Col. W. H. Knauss, of Columbus, Ohio, the Federal veteran 
who is to-day the guest of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, U. C. V., 
and George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., arrived last night, accom- 
panied by Mrs. Knauss. He was driven to Mr. Toney's home, 
in Vauxhall Place, where he was accorded a Southern welcome. 

Colonel Knauss has endeared himself to every Southerner by 
his generosity and magnanimity in caring for the graves of the 
Confederate dead at Camp Chase, Ohio; and by his splendid war 
record on the Federal side he is a hero in the North. He will be 
the principal orator at the camp fire of the Confederate and Fed- 
eral veterans to be held at Cumberland Park, and will respond to 
the toast, "The Confederate Dead at Camp Chase." 

He was indeed accorded a "Southern welcome." As in Ne\v 
Orleans, so it was in Nashville — kindness and friendship every- 
where. There was the satisfactory knowledge that these atten- 
tions proved the nobility of character of the Southerner and his 
quick appreciation of a friendly act. The Banner oi that date 
told the story (already alluded to) of the battle at Fredericksburg, 
Va., in which a piece of shell came near finishing my life work. 

The Fourth of July celebration was gotten up by the Frank 
Cheatham Bivouac at Cumberland Park for the purpose of rais- 



no THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

ing money to erect a monument to the private Confederate sol- 
dier. The Post of the G. A. R. at Nashville gave them cordial 
assistance, and a feeling of good will seemed to pervade the 
atmosphere. All in all, it was a day of genuine enjoyment. 

There was a sham battle that made the light of battle come 
again in the eyes of the veterans. In this case the defenses 
were rows of mown weeds. At a distance they looked impregna- 
ble, but when set on fire, accidentally, they disappeared faster 
than earthworks under masked batteries. The vohmies of smoke, 
the roar of the artillery, and the spiteful crack of the rifles seemed 
like old times, particularly when a command in the old-time gray 
and with the old-time yell moved to the attack. That night the 
camp fire was an interesting occasion. It is ever interesting when 
men once foes meet together as though comrades always and talk 
of the battle days. 

Before the great battles of the sixties it would have been con- 
sidered an event worthy of world-wide note, could there have 
occurred a camp fire of Wellington's grenadiers and Napoleon's 
Old Guard. The world heard of Gettysburg as well as Waterloo. 
Meade's legions of blue were as terrible as Wellington's grena- 
diers, and Lee's old guards in gray under Pickett charged where 
Napoleon's men could not have gone. It was such soldiers who 
sat together and ate and drank together that night in Nashville. 

In concluding this portion of the history of Camp Chase and 
its dead, I assert that, if I had hoped for any reward, I have had 
it abundantl}' ; but I had no thought when I began the work that 
any such scenes as I have described would occur. At most I 
felt that if I could let it be known in the South that there was 
sleeping here some one who had left standing at the gate as \vt 
marched away a woman who could not see him through her 
tears — a woman who had left her farewell kiss upon his lips, a 
woman who knew not where he sleeps — I should be repaid. I 
was permitted to give this information, and they thanked me, and 
that was enough. But they have written that they prayed God 
to bless me, and that is enough, quite enough. 



CHAPTER X 

Camp Chase in i86i. 

Once a Military Camp and Prison ; Now a Fine Farm — The First Prison- 
ers — A Confederate Pictures the Daily Grind of Prison Life— What a 
Texan Remembers of Camp Chase Prison — The Plot to Escape — The 
Spies' Report — Brutalizing Effects of Prison Life — The Man with the 
Poor Memory — The Deserter and the Prisoner — Strother's Story — 
Work on Camp Chase Begun in May, 1861. . 

To-day fruitful fields and comfortable homes take the place of 
ihe old parade grounds at Camp Chase, once worn bare by the 
tramp of men who had grown weary waiting for exchange. In 
the long stretch of years from '6i-'65 to 1904 time has easily re- 
moved the traces of a prison from Camp Chase. Time softens 
memories, as "distance lends enchantment." 

The first prisoners of war received at Camp Chase were a party 
of the Twenty-Third Virginia Regiment who had been captured 
in the Kanawha \^alley. They were taken there July 5. 1861, 
and for a time were held as hostages for the Union soldiers cap- 
tured by Confederates. They were not held long, but were re- 
turned to their homes. The names of these Virginians, as given 
by the local papers of that date and from official records, were as 
follows : R. B. Hackney. A. B. Dorst, A. Roseberry, H. J. Fisher, 
R. Knupp, J. A. Kline. Frank Ransom, J. W. McMollen. J- W. 
Echard, David Dong, G. B. Slaughter, A. E. Eastham, J. VV. 
Diltz, Robert Mitchell, S. Harfiss, E. J. Romson, F. B. Kline, Sly 
McCausland, O. H. Selnll, James Johnson, W. A. Roseberry, B. 
Franklin, and James Carr. The high tide of prison population was 
reached in 1863, when there were confined at Camp Chase stock- 
ades about 8,000 Confederate soldiers. The majority of these 
were privates and noncommissioned officers. There were at times 
officers of the rank of colonel at this prison, but they were moved 
to Johnson's Island, if not exchanged. 

The first military camp for the Union soldiers was Camp 
Jackson. It is a park now, called Goodale Park. A story extant 
is that a regiment stationed at Camp Jackson upon the occasion 



112 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

of an anticipated outbreak of prisoners at Camp Chase was 
'"double-quicked" all the way from Camp Jackson to Camp Chasf^, 
a distance of five miles. It was a severe test of endurance, for 
not every man could run for five miles without resting. 

When the call for 300,000 more men was made in 1862, Camp 
Chase was made the place of rendezvous for ten of the interior 
counties. There were large camps near Cincinnati and Cleveland 
— Camp Denison, near Cincinnati. Regiment after regiment was 
equipped and sent to the front from Camp Chase, and Confed- 
erate prisoners were received in great numbers. 

The prisons neither North nor South were intended for "pleas- 
ure resorts," and the death rate at Andersonville, Millen, Camp 
Chase, and Johnson's Island is proof that none of them were 
desirable places. 

One feature of Camp Chase, unchanged through all these years, 
is the old "Four-Mile" house. It appears now as it was then. 
(See page 5.) Some who were in prison at Camp Chase will re- 
member the Confederate sutler store, where the prisoners secured 
rubber buttons and made rings, for which there was quite a de- 
mand from visitors, who were desirous of getting these souvenirs 
from the prisons. Many of these rings are still retained as me- 
mentos of this Federal prison. 

A pen picture of a prison mess at Camp Chase or Johnson's 
Island is from Col. Barbiere's "Scraps from the Prison Table at 
Camp Chase and Johnson's Island," written soon after the war. 

A prison mess contained from sixty to one hundred persons. 
They slept in two long rooms, in single bunks, but two were 
forced into each bunk. They were three tiers high. In the 
upper tier the occupants could barely turn over without brushing 
the ceiling. A cynical comrade who was at Millen Prison, Geor- 
gia, in October and November, 1864, remarked that he had not 
room to turn over without brushing the roof or ceiling, while I 
had all the room that was between the stars and that patch of 
sand — nothing above me but the clouds, not even a blanket. 

Colonel Barbiere also adds : 

One dining room, one side of which was arranged with bunks,, 
rendered eating at all times disagreeable to a man of sensitive 
Olfactories. In our room were ten plank tables, each adorned 
with ten plates, an equal number of tin cups, two pronged, forks, 
a dull knife and an iron spoon, and a chunk of bread about the 
size of a man's fist to each plate, which allowance was all the 



CAMP CHASE IN iS6i. 113 

bread one received at that meal. In the center of the tables 
there was meat or bacon. Coffee was poured into the cups pre- 
vious to meals to cool. One stood to eat, and did not waste time 
at the table. Breakfast was served at six, dinner at half past 
eleven, and supper at half past five. Every one returned to his 
quarters at "retreat" and lights were extinguished at "taps," 
the former being at sundown and the latter at ten. Then every- 
thing was quiet until the treadmill of daily movements began with 
the next day's sun. . . . 

Camp Chase is situated in a flat four miles from Columbus, 
with a high board fence around the cabins. There is an elevated 
plank walk within the yard, to keep us from falling in the mud 
while making a circuit of the prison. It is one of the filthiest of 
the many pens assigned for the confinement of the Confederate 
prisoners. 

Col. W. H. Richardson, of Austin, Tex., in 1898 wrote the au- 
thor of Camp Chase Prison : 

It is but natural that you should like to know something of the 
life in Camp Chase and of those who fill the graves you have so 
kindly cared for. The story as it was written in hunger and suf- 
fering might bring to the surface bitter memories and be consid- 
ered unseemly and out of place. I will therefore deal only in a 
general way. 

Arriving in Camp Chase early in August, 1864, we found an 
order curtailing rations to the lowest minimum possible to sus- 
tain life. Therefore a constant want of necessary, healthy food to 
sustain life fast filled those graves. The weak went first, and the 
inifortunate ones who contracted diseases next; while strong 
men, inured to hardship and short rations, wore on. 

All this time the sutler was not allowed to sell anything in the 
shape of food, not even pepper. It is little wondiCr, then, that 
any scheme to escape was readily entered into. Our mess, com- 
posed of officers only (mostly border men), organized for the 
purpose of escape. We occupied a room twenty-four by twenty- 
four feet, with twenty-four men in the room, in one end of a 
barracks shanty built on posts two and a half to three feet off 
the ground. With one blanket and one suit of clothes, cold and 
hungry, we dug and worked for eight long months, only to be 
disappointed again and again. Secret tunnels and charging com- 
binations all failed. 

I will give you one instance: After many failures through spies, 
and often by the failure of weak-kneed brothers, nine of us or- 
ganized, pledged to one another by all we held sacred, our sole 
purpose being to get away. The wall of No. i on the side next 
to Columbus was moved farther out, making more room. A new 
sink was dug eight by sixteen feet and eight feet deep, and we 



114 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

conceived the idea of getting into it as soon as opened for use 
and tunneling out, as we had only about twenty feet to go. I vol- 
unteered to take up the planks and let down a detail to dig. 
Mine was the post of honor. Immediately in front was a street 
lamp, and on the wall a sentinel twenty-five feet away. I worked 
long and hard, for planks were double-nailed and tools were 
scarce. The faintest shadow hid the form of the prisoners from 
the aim of the sentinel, only too willing to lire, but the boldness 
of the thing was what counted. No one suspected us ; not even 
the spy saw the dark outlines of that desperate soldier working 
for life and liberty. The planks were raised ; the work pro- 
gressed rapidly; two or three shifts were worked desperately. 
The ground was not frozen solidly enough where the new sewer 
led off, and when the tunnel reached the sewer it caved in, and 
the morning revealed the plot. 

Then a howl went up under the very feet of the sentinel, and 
in the light of a street lamp a daring attempt to escape was made. 
The excitement in the Federal camp was great. It was ration 
day (rations were issued every two days), but instead of rations 
an order was posted which read : "Until the men concerned in the 
attempt to escape are brought forward, no more rations will be 
issued." Some of the prisoners were ready to sell us for a mess 
of pottage. But little we cared ; we, the picked nine, were not 
making a circus of ourselves. That we would be betrayed and 
probably shot bothered us but little, for a hungry man cares 
not a great deal for life. Colonel Hawkins, a preacher and sol- 
dier, volunteered to go before the commander. He did this, and, 
eloquently presenting the case, showed how hundreds of men 
were being punished for the act of others. Then the rations were 
issued and the job ended. . . . 

Thirty odd years is a long time. Colonel, and you and r;are 
through fighting and can look back on the scenes of long ago with- 
out bitterness. 

That there was unnecessary hardship in all prisons. North and 
South, goes without saying. Men in those days were ofttimes 
cruel to their comrades. An instance of this was related recently 
by a man who had been a prisoner of war for a time at Macon 
and Millen, Ga. This was a case of ingratitude by a comrad,e, 
and is told simply to show the brutalizing effects of a prison life. 

These men belonged to an Ohio regiment. They were captured 
near Atlanta and taken first to Macon. The friend who tells the 
story had been a prisoner some time before the other men of 
his company were captured. It was a common thing that men 
were two days in the inclosure before they were marked for ra- 
tions. There were not many prisoners from the North at Macon, 




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ii6 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

there being quite as many Confederate soldiers confined there as 
Union. The Confederates were charged with one ofifense or an- 
otlier, and were awaiting court-martial. Both Northern and 
Southern men drew the same amount of rations. During the time 
the two men were waiting to be named for rations they were fed 
by the comrade who arrived first. He not only shared his ra- 
tions, but his bunk, for shelter or bunks at Macon were scarce. 
When they were shifted from Macon to Millen, they became 
separated. One of the two, who shall be called John B. (as he 
is yet alive and doubtless regrets his heartlessness ) , had traded a 
fine pair of boots for a large piece of rag carpet and a sum of 
Confederate money. With the money he had built a sod hut or 
cave. It was large enough for three, but he failed to remember 
the comrade that had befriended him. The latter was too proud 
to ask any favors, and managed to get an excavation in the sand, 
which protected him to some extent from the wind. His captors 
had taken his blankets, and the prison authorities furnished none. 
The bit of a boy slept in this alone. One raw November night, 
after the rain had fallen steadily all day and into the night, he 
went- to the dry quarters of this man, John B. He was not wel- 
comed, but he said: "T have come to say to you, John B., that 
v/hen you had nothing to eat I fed you. I fed both you and Dave, 
and you shared my bunk ; and now to-night it is cold and wet, 
and I am sick, and I want you to give me a place to sleep." John 
growled about it, and finally gave grudging permission that the 
boy who had befriended him might sit up all night by the door 
of the hut, but there would be no room to lie down. There was 
room, however; but the boy sat all night in a sort of kneeling 
position, while his comrades slept comfortably. This story illus- 
trates that there were brutes in both armies. 

In the South, as in the North, prisoners captured in battle were 
kindly treated by the men who stood upon the battle line. W. C. 
Dodson, of Atlanta, Ga., relates in the Veteran an incident whicli 
illustrates this admirably. When he was captured there was 
placed with him a deserter, or one who claimed he had deserted 
because he had been conscripted, and Dodson refused to share a 
bed with him. 

There being for several days only the two of us, we were 
thrown together, but I persistently refused to associate with the 
deserter. The commissary respected my feelings, and issued my 



CAMP CHASE IN 1861. 117 

rations separately, remarking each time: "Now, Johnny, when you 
eat that up come back and get more." I had no blankets,' having 
left mine under my saddle, and the first night I determined to 
sit up by the fire. A good-natured teamster asked me why I did 
not go to bed. I told him I had no blanket, and could not afford 
to sleep with a deserter. "Well, Johnny," said the teamster, 
"durn him, you needn't sleep with him. Come to my wagon, and 
1 will lend you a blanket." There is not a living Confederate 
comrade whom I had rather meet than that big-hearted teamster. 
There are many other pleasant incidents connected with my stay 
v/ith these brave men at the front, and I truly wish there was no 
other side to the picture, but there is. 

Soon other prisoners came in, and we were sent back to Ste- 
venson and turned over to some home guards, who made life 
almost a hell to us. At Louisville I got into an argument with 
one of this kind of sentry, and for saying nothing more oft'ensive 
tlian that I had been fighting men in the front I found a bayonet 
at my breast. I still have the man's name, and it may be best 
for us both if we never meet again. 

I remained six months at Camp Chase, but the policy of starva- 
tion did not commence until afterwards, though many kinds of 
petty tyranny were practiced. For some flagrant abuse ( I forget 
now the circumstances) several of my mess addressed a note of 
protest to the commander. It was written and signed by gentle- 
men of intelligence and refinement, and was respectful. The 
response received was a squad of soldiers with handcuffs and balls 
and chains for the entire party. The younger men made light 
of the punishment, but among the victims was a gentleman (Capt. 
S. F. Nunelle, of Center, Ala.) much older than the rest, and 
who was disabled by a wound in the hip. The shackles of course 
rendered him practically helpless, and we younger ones had to 
wait on him. To those of us nearest naked were issued inferior 
Federal uniforms. 

In the April Veteran for 1898 appears the following: 

W. H. Lastinger writes from Waco, Tex., that among the dead 
Confederate prisoners buried at Camp Chase, as published in the 
January Feteraii, is W. H. Leatinger, Twenty-Ninth Georgia 
Regiment, of which he was a member. Knowing nothing of this 
name "Leatinger," Mr. Lastinger supposes it was himself. He is 
glad to report that he is still on the top side of terra tirma and en- 
joying good health. Mr. Lastinger wrote : "Until I read the 
magazine, I knew not where lay G. W. Bond, William Hodge, 
R. McKinney, John T. Simons, Elihu H. Tygart, and William 
.A.nderson — all my comrades of Company G." 

The list of names published in the Veteran were from the Adju- 
tant General's report for the year 1867. In that report are the 



iiS THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

names of Alex J. Smith, Company E, Twenty-Ninth Georgia In- 
fantry, Grave No. 563, who died December 6, 1864, and S. S. or 
S. P. Smith, Company G, Twenty-Ninth Georgia Infantry, Grave 
No. 1800, who died March 31, 1865. So much for the printed 
record. Mr. Lastinger was doubtless correct, as he knew the 
names of his company by heart. 

From the same source comes the story of W. O. Connor, of 
Cave Springs, Ga., who was for a short time a prisoner at Camp 
Chase. He was captured at Sahsbury, N. C. One of the bat- 
talions defending Salisbury was composed of "galvanized" Yan- 
kees, as they were called in the South — men who, as prisoners of 
war, had taken the oath to support the Confederacy after they had 
enlisted in the Union army. The writer has tried to show in 
various ways his respect for the living and dead of the Confed- 
erate Army, but only one sentiment can be entertained for these 
creeping things. But to Mr. Connor's narrative: 

Having no fortitications, of course this force offered but little 
resistance to the impetuous onslaught of General Stoneman's dis- 
ciplined cavalry. Those "galvanized" Yankees threw down their 
arms and refused to fight as soon as the Yankees made the 
charge on our lines, and they, with nearly all the rest of the 
command, were captured. 

We were then marched across the Blue Ridge and Alleghany 
Mountains to Johnson's Station, on the old East Tennessee and 
Virginia railroad, the first stretch being forty-eight miles before 
a. stop was made, with the exception of two hours at Statesville. 
On the way we were told that General Lee had surrendered, but 
of course we did not believe it until we saw numbers of his soldiers 
on the way home. We were taken to Camp Chase, where we ar- 
rived May 3, 1865. 

En route we were kept a day and a night at Nashville, being 
quartered in the Tennessee penitentiary. The "galvanized" Yan- 
kees who were held as prisoners with us had been very abusive 
in their treatment of the Confederates on this long and arduous 
march. When we were marched into the penitentiary they were 
placed in an upper story of the building, and boasted of their 
superior treatment ; but when we were marched out the next day 
to take the train they were left locked up in the prison, and then 
it was our time to crow. We were told that every one of them 
would be shot for desertion. 

Arriving at Camp Chase, we were marched into Prison No. 3. 
There were about one thousand of us, and as we marched in the 
roll was called, with instructions to answer either "Oath" or "Ex- 
change:" This meant that our names would be entered as being 



CAMP CHASE IN 1861. 119 

willing to take the oath of allegiance or to remain in prison until 
exchanged. Knowing that Lee had already surrendered, about 
half of the men signified by their answer that they were willing 
to take the oath of allegiance. 

We found in Prison No. 3 from fifteen hundred to twenty-five 
hundred men, and but sixteen of the entire number answered 
"Exchange." When the roll of the prison was called, J. Courtney 
P3rown, now a prominent Baptist minister of Aiken, S. C, and 
the writer were two of the sixteen. Each of the sixteen men 
who wanted to be exchanged was ordered to report at the gate, 
with knapsack and one blanket, prepared for marching. During 
these three weeks all sorts of rumors were circulated as to what 
would be done with us, one being that we would be put in irons 
in the Ohio State Prison for life, and another being that we would 
be shot in retaliation for something the Confederates had done. 
Every man who has ever been in military prison is familiar with 
the absurd rumors that will somehow be circulated. 

Our comrades gathered around us and bade us farewell, many 
of them with tears streaming down their bronzed cheeks. W^e 
marched out the bluest-looking men that had ever been gathered 
together, and not one of us would have been surprised if we had 
been put in front of a file of soldiers and shot down. Instead of 
this, however, we were marched along the side of the prison wall 
a short distance, a gate was thrown open, and we were thrown 
into Prison No. i. Here we found seventy-five or eighty Con- 
federate officers and citizens, some of .whom I knew. Instead of 
a barracks accommodating two hundred men, we were given 
rooms arranged for twelve men each. In each room was a cook- 
ing stove with necessary vessels, and our rations were issued di- 
rectly to us, so that each man could prepare his food to suit him- 
self. Hence we were much more comfortably situated and fared 
better than the men we left in Prison No. 3. 

Wlien the time came for liberating the prisoners, all the sixteen 
^^ ere liberated with the others except one little fellow from West 
Virginia (I never knew his name) who still refused to take the 
oath, giving as a reason that he had promised, his father that he 
would never do so without his consent. No explanation was ever 
given why the change was made from Prison No. 3 to No. r, nor 
was there a word spoken to us in regard to the matter. 

An interesting s.tory of an attempt to escape is told in the 
Veteran by R. H. Strother, of Milton, Ky., who served in the 
Fourth Kentucky Cavalry : 

During the summer of 1864 a movement was started to organ- 
ize the prisoners at Camp Chase into companies, regiments, and 
brigades. After the organization was effected instructions were 
secretlv given in regard to how the break for libertv should be 



I20 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

made. July 4 was the day selected, and the hour ten o'clock, 
a« the bread wagon was leaving the prison. The prisoners were 
not allowed to assemble in crowds, so we had to be cautious in 
our movements. They were to take position in groups of three 
or four men, as near the gate as possible without causing suspi- 
cion. The signal agreed upon was to be "Fresh fish," which was 
to be given by the leader of the charging squad when the bread 
wagon went out. The leader with his group was to drop in be- 
hind the wagon just before it reached the gate, and as it was 
passing out the signal was to be given and the groups of the 
charging squad were to fall in rapidly, keeping up a continuous 
charge through the gate. Those nearest the gate were to rush 
out and fall immediately in the rear of the charging squad, and 
those of Barracks No. 2 to drop in behind those of No. i, and so 
on, which would keep up a continuous charge, so that the gate 
could not be closed. 

The Confederates were to have their pockets full of rocks, 
v/hich was the only ammunition available. Everything seemed to 
be working all right, and there were no indications that the officers 
in charge of the prison had suspected anything wrong. 

The morning designated came bright and beautiful. The pris- 
oners were jubilant over the prospect of escaping, and every man 
was in his place, waiting for the time. All eyes were watching 
for the bread wagon to come and to make its exit. Confusion 
came, however, through the earlier and, as it proved, untimely ar- 
rival and departure of the wood wagon. This caused the charge 
to result in failure. The charging squad was so eager that they 
gave the signal as the wood wagon went out, and the main force 
were ofif guard, not expecting the signal at that time. Thus it was 
that the charging squad passed out through the gate, and,, the 
main column not being in supporting distance, the gate was closed. 

There was a picnic that day a few miles from the prison, and 
most of the Federal officers and soldiers not on duty were going 
to attend. In fact, when the charge was made a large number 
of them were mounted ready to start, so that all thev had to do 
was to surround the little squad and march it to prison. 

In corroboration of the story told by Mr. Strother, the Ohio 
State Journal, of Columbus, tells the following story : 

On the morning of the 4th of July about twenty prisoners, 
taking advantage of the large gate being opened, gave a yell and 
broke for liberty. They were fired upon by the guard, two of 
them being severely wounded and the remainder captured. It is 
learned that as soon as the break was made the Eighty-Eighth 
Regiment formed and pursued the fugitives at double-quick, firing 
as they went. The prisoners in the meantime pulled of¥ their 
hats and held them up in token of surrender. Colonel Richard- 
son, who was in command, then ordered his men to cease firing. 



CAMP CHASE IK iS6i. 121 

The first public mention of Camp Chase, so far as the history 
of it can be gathered from the newspapers of that date, was on 
May 28, 1861, in the Ohio State Journal, the only newspaper in 
Columbus now that was in existence then, and was as follows: 

Workmen were engaged yesterday in taking down the barracks 
at Camp Jackson, for the purpose of removing to a new camp 
to be organized four miles west of this city. It is to be a regular 
camp, and will contain one hundred acres. The land has been 
plowed, harrowed, and rolled smooth, and will make a good place 
for drilling purposes. 

The following notices of arrivals of Confederate prisoners are 
from the same paper and quoted literally : 

August 9, 1861. — Capt. J. W. Free arrived here at a late hour 
bst night from Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, with a company 
of one hundred and fifty men. This company brought with them 
from Zanesville one hundred and ten Rebel prisoners, which the 
Seventeenth Ohio Regiment had sent to that place. Among the 
number were one preacher, one lawyer, and one doctor. 

Under the date of August 19, same year, appears the following: 

Twenty-eight prisoners arrived Saturday from West Virginia 
via Cincinnati ; and of these, twenty-three are on parole. They 
will be immediately transferred to Richmond, Va. The reporter 
heard one of them remark that if they took Washington City they 
would not burn it, for there were too many good buildings there ; 
and as they wished to make it the capital of the Confederacy 
sometime, these buildings would be needed. 

August 20. — Gone. The secessionists who attracted eager 
crowds at the American Hotel yesterday left for their homes in 
Mrginia to-day. They were released on parole not to take up 
arms against the government again. 

The last lot of prisoners for Camp Chase in the year 1861 ar- 
rived on December 28 and. consisted of eight captured Confed- 
erates. 



CHAPTER XI. 

Increasing Numbers. 

The Indifference of Columbus toward the Soldiers — Southern Prisoners 
Were Not the Only Men Neglected — A Wife Accompanies Her Hus- 
band to Prison — Arrival of a Number of Officers — A Kentuckian Ex- 
presses Himself — What the Raw Recruit Said — The Long Roll Beaten 
— Almost a Riot. 

It is remarkable that in all the official reports and records of 
1861-65 of the Governor of Ohio, his Adjutant General, or his 
subordinate officers no mention is made of the Confederate prison 
at Camp Chase except a brief reference made in 186 1 by Gov. 
William Dennison, who in his annual report said : 

In accordance with his request, instructions were some time 
since given to General McClellan to send prisoners to Ohio. Re- 
garding- the jails of the State as being insecure and improper 
places for confinement, I caused to be erected at Camp Chase a 
prison of sufficient size for the accommodation of four hundred 
and fifty inmates, and upon a plan capable of enlargement. A 
considerable number have been and are there confined, and others 
are continually arriving. 

Columbus was indifferent to the men who had battled and 
struggled for the cause in which the North was enlisted. For 
years the men in blue marched in and out of the city. The cit- 
izens read of war, but felt none of it. They grew weary of the 
drumbeat and of the glitter and glory of it all. The spirit of 
commercialism was rampant, and there was a widespread desire 
on the part of those not in business to organize schemes to get 
the money of the soldiers. Camp Chase, being central and con- 
venient, was made the depot for the Union paroled prisoners 
in the North. Often they came here sick and in tatters and were 
driven to Camp Chase like so many cattle, and when they got 
there they were lucky to find an open shed to lie in. 

In the spring of 1863 there came from a Southern prison a 
?quad of Union men who were almost naked. They were turned 
into an open shed, without officers to see to their wants, and they 
soon became a menace to the troops near by. Days went by 



INCREASING NUMBERS. 



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before these men drew rations. They were fed by men of an- 
other command who were fortunate enough to have something 
to spare. This condition of affairs lasted for some time ; and 
the paroled prisoners, hungry, half-naked, and disgusted at the 
treatment accorded them, plundered the tents of their more for- 
tunate comrades. The story of this situation at Camp Chase was 
found in the columns of the Ohio State Journal. 

From January i, 1862, there is no mention of the arrival of 
Confederate prisoners until on the 24th of February, A few 
Virginians had been sent back and forth, but nothing of note 
had occurred. On that date the Journal mentions the arrival of 
Robert J. Baldwin, who had been captured by General Lander at 
Bloomery, Ga., together with six captains, nine lieutenants, five 
first sergeants, six other sergeants, five corporals, and nineteen 
privates. No names were given except that of Colonel Baldwin. 
Continuing, the Journal stated : 

Nine prisoners captured near Fayetteville, Ky., by Colonel 
Scammon, of the Twenty-Third Ohio, arrived Saturday last and 
"took lodgings" at Camp Chase. The visitors are to be in- 
creased soon by a fresh arrival of the Southern chivalry. The 
secession sympathizers, who hung their jaws on the reception 
of the Fort Donelson news, ought to turn out cii masse and give 
their Southern brethren a cordial welcome. Names to-morrow 
morning. 

The names did not appear the next morning. Instead, there 
was a notice of the arrival of another lot of prisoners, alluded 
to as follows : 

Another detachment of one hundred and four Southern pris- 
oners arrived about half past nine last night. They were all 
officers, including Buckner's staff, captured at Fort Donelson. 
They were generally fine-looking men ; and, being all officers, 
are undoubtedly of the upper crust of chivalry of the South. 
There appeared to be no uniformity of dress ; each seemed to 
consult his own taste or convenience — perhaps the latter. 

The sympathies of the crowd were awakened by the appear- 
ance among the prisoners of a woman, the wife of one of the 
officers, who had clung to her husband in his reverses and was 
determined to share his captivity. She was sent in advance of 
the others in charge of a special guard. There were also several 
contrabands in the company, brought along as servants. We 
doubt very much, however, whether the contrabands will be 
held as prisoners, but rather as contrabands of war. 

It is rumored that twelve hundred more prisoners will arrive 
at 12 o'clock to-day. 



124 ^^^ STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Of the noble woman whose unselfish love prompted her to 
to go to prison with her husband, no further record can be 
found. One can only wish that the love of such a wife, that 
such unbounded affection, was at last rewarded; that each lived 
to see the war end and, like the hero and heroine of the fairy 
tale, "lived happily ever after." 

The Journal on Saturday, March i, 1862, gave the following 
names of those who arrived the Thursday preceding. No doubt 
these men have friends in the North who will scan the list with 
eagerness : 

Third Mississippi Kegiiiiciit. — Col. T. J. Davidson, Lieut. Col. 
J. M. Wiltz, Chaplain J. H. Robinson; Company A, Capt. A. J. 
Gibson, Lieuts. K. M. Smith, J. \V. Day, and ll. B. Meneden; 
Company B, Capt. J. R. Hill, Lieuts. M. R. Harbin, V. B. Dixen, 
and J. B. Pennell; Company C, Capt. G. W. Garrett, Lieuts. N. 
L. Dazey, B. F. Darrod, and J. G. Moore; Company D, Lieuts. 
J. C. Turner, W. H. Groyn, and B. H. Estes; Company E, Capt. 
J. H. Kennedy, Lieuts. A. D. Saddler, and E. Roberts ; Company 
H, Capt. E. M. Wells, Lieut. J. W. Douglass; Company G, 
Lieuts. J. H. Keddlesperger,. David Lewis, and J. W. Childs; 
Company 5, Capt. S. W. McWharter, Lieuts. C. N. Simpson, W. 
C. Swindale, and W. G. Young. 

Twentieth Mississippi Regiment.— Ma.j. W. N. Brown; Com- 
pany A, Capt. H. Canteg, Lieut. R. M. Wilson; Company B, 
W. A. Rover, Lieut. Thos. B. Sykes, R. S. Murff, and J. A. 
Roberts ; Company C, Capt. J. Z. George, Lieut. J. M. Liddel, 
F, W. Keyes, and A. A. Staddord; Company D, Capt. O. K. 
Massey, Lieuts. J. C. Williams, P. L. Dotson, and R. C. McClel- 
land ; Company E, Lieut. William S. Champlen ; Company F, 
Capt. Thomas B. Graham, Lieut. P. R. Sterling; Company G, 
Lieut. W. R. Nelson ; Company H, Lieut. Thomas H. Harrison ; 
Company I, Capt. W. M. Chatfield, Lieuts. F. W. Gale and J. 
V. Williams ; Company K, Lieuts. S. L. Oldham and J. R- Hene- 
phile. 

Seventh Texas. — Col. John Green, Maj. R. H. Graham, Adjt. 
H. Douglas, Asst. H. Beall ; Company A, one lieutenant (name 
not given) ; Company B, Lieuts. Kemp, Covid, and Ford; Com- 
pany C, Capt. Houghton, Lieuts. English and Henderson ; Com- 
pany E, Capt. E. M. Zaut, Lieuts. Donnelly, Martin, Lipscome. 
and Adams ; Company F, Lieut. Moore ; Company G, Capt. 
Moody, Lieuts. Callett and Tildwell ; Company H, Lieuts. Foncst 
and Craig; Company t^, Capt. John Brown, Lieuts. Ballinger, 
White, and McDavid. 

Third Battalion Alabama Infantry, Capt. D. T. Ryan; Twenty- 
Seventh Alabama, Capt. E. G. Wright ; TentH Tennessee, Capt. 
B. ^T. Cheatham. 



INCREASING NUMBERS. 125 

The Journal of Monday, March 3, states that seven hundred 
and twenty prisoners arrived Saturday morning-. "They were 
nearly all officers, many of them men of intelligence, some hav- 
ing held honorable positions under the government they are now 
endeavoring to destroy. Some of our citizens showed a disposi- 
tion to quiz several of them, but their curt replies soon silenced 
such comment. The prisoners at Camp Chase now numbered 
some twelve hundred." 

The following letter from a gentleman who had been a prisoner 
at Camp Chase for a time shows that there were some humane 
men in charg'e part of the time, at least : 

House of Representatives^ Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 10, 1862. 
Mr. N. A. Gray. 

Dear Sir : The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday, in a very un- 
truthful notice of some remarks made by myself in the House on 
Saturday last in relation to my late arrest and imprisonment at 
Camp Chase, conveys the idea that I complained of bad treatment 
while there. This is not true; and for fear the article may place 
me wrong with several gentlemen whom I may never see again, 
but whose respect I wish to preserve, I bear public testimony to 
their uniform kindness and courtesy to me while a prisoner in 
their hands. Nothing was said or done by any one to insult me, 
and I acknowledge the gentlemanly and considerate treatment I 
received from Lieutenant Colonel Remple. Capt. A. V. Rice. 
Lieutenants Wright and Knauss. and Sergeant Buice. I remem- 
ber also with satisfaction the friendly conduct of many members 
and officers of the Ohio Legislature (which of course includes 
yourself), and will frankly confess that an utter change of senti- 
ment with them enabled me to return from Ohio with more hope 
for the future of our country than I felt before. The Gazette, 
however, quotes me correctly in that I called Camp Chase prison 
a "mudhole." 

Your friend. S. B. Chambers. 

The Capt. A. V. Rice alluded to in the above letter afterwards 
became a brigadier general, and when President Cleveland was 
elected the second time he appointed him pension agent for Ohio, 
the salary being about $4,000 per year. He lost one leg in battle ; 
and, while a Democrat, held office under Presidents ]\IcKinley and 
Roosevelt. He died recently. 

A little incident occurred early in April, 1862, that caused 
much excitement in Camp Chase, but did no damage. A sentinel' 
who had not soldiered long was on guard at one of the prisons, 



126 7//i- STOk)- OF CAMP CHASE. 

and as dawn approached thought he saw a man in gray trying to 
make his escape. He quickly drew aim and fired at the supposed 
Rebel. This alarmed other sentinels, and these, being new to the 
business, also fired, and the camp was alarmed. The long roll was 
beaten and the orderly sergeants shouted to their men to "fall 
in." The Journal, in speaking of the occurrence, said: 

The guards turned out with commendable alacrity, thinking 
perhaps that the whole Rebel horde were at their heels and Avere 
about to take possession of the camp. They presented a ridicu- 
lous appearance as they crawled out in every condition — some 
without their coats' and, others with one boot or barefooted. When 
investigation was made, the prisoners were all there and the ma- 
jority asleep. Only a few were aroused by the excitement. The 
sentinel shot a cow near by and nearly killed some of our men. 

The Jour)ial of April 9 said : 

Yesterday morning Colonel Moody, commandant at Camp 
Chase, started thirty Confederate officers for Fort Warren. They 
included most of those on parole in this city. The Knights of 
the Golden Circle shed buckets of tears at parting with their 
Southern brethren. 

The same paper on the morning of July 10 said : 

The ingenuity of the Confederate prisoners confined at Camp 
Chase has been tested in a variety of ways in their efforts to see 
the outer world. Their latest was to dig out. It was discovered 
recently that two mines had been made, commencing underneath 
one of their quarters and running to within a few feet of the out- 
side prison fence. Had they succeeded in reaching the outside, 
they would there have been met b}' the ground guard, whose at- 
tention they could scarcely have escaped. 

The Journal of July 2^ said : 

Yesterday two squads of prisoners were taken to Camp Chase. 
The train from the East brought twenty bushwhacking Confed- 
erates captured in A^irginia. Several of them were wounded and 
on crutches. 

The afternoon train from the South brought twenty-eight more, 
captured recently in Kentucky, among them a Colonel Jones. 
They marched from the depot to Messrs. Hawkes & Company's 
stage office, where omnibuses were provided to carry them to the 
prison. Among the number attracted by them through curiosity 
were several paroled Union prisoners, who were not very choice 
in their language in denouncing the authorities for their accom- 
modating spirit exercised toward these men. 

The prisoners at Camp Chase are quiet and submissive since 
their attempt some days ago to dig out. The three prisons con- 



INCREJSIXG XUMBERS. 127 

tain some 1,676 men. No one is permitted to see them without 
a special permit from the commandant. 

On August 17 eleven hundred Camp Chase prisoners were sent 
South. They were to be exchanged at Vicksburg. 

In 1862 there were many political prisoners at Camp Chase. 
A Columbus paper of November 22 says : 

There have been examined up to this time three hundred and 
twenty-seven political prisoners by special commission, and two 
hundred and seventy of them discharged by order of the Secretary 
of War, together with fifty-seven others reported upon by the Wa- 
.Dcpartment. There are yet about four hundred prisoners con- 
fined at Camp Chase, anxiously waiting a hearing. 

The following-named prisoners were released on the above- 
mentioned date : Wm. M. Butler, Davis County, Ky. ; T. W. Haw- 
thorn, ^Mercer County, Va. ; George W. Demsey, Fayette County, 
Va. ; John Oder, Campbell County, Ky. ; W. L. Hontoni, ^Mercer 
County, A^a. ; E. J. Ranson, Virginia; Walter, Brown County, 

Ohio; Thomas C. Read, Alleghany County, ; Thomas 

Brigham, Mercer County, Ky. ; W. H. Robertson, Robertson Coun- 
ty, Ky. ; James W. Evans, Grant County, Ky. ; Charles Richard, 
Hampshire County, Tenn. ; John N. Helmick, Calhoun County, 
\a. ; John W. Campbell, Davis County, Ky. ; A. H. Clement and 
James Lester, Pike County; J. D. Lillard, Calhoun County; 
Joseph Hicks, Owen County; John Roland and R. Smith, Swan 
County; Thomas J. Webster, Grant County; L. Slems, Campbell 
County; Solonion AIcDade and James Green, Gallatin County; 
Richard McGeness and John King, Harrison County ; Z. Doly, 
Bourbon County; M. Jenkines, Pendleton County; John Dough- 
erty, Bath County ; B. R. Griffin. Henderson County ; James 
Lafiferty, Harrison County; Samuel Flowers, Champaign County, 
Ohio. 

The Ohio State Journal of February 5, 1863, says : 

The ten o'clock train from the South last night brought three 
women from Nashville who have elected themselves to a term of 
repose at Camp Chase. It seems that they were decidedly brisk 
in forwarding contraband information to Southern leaders and 
giving money and aid to their soldiers. They are of one family, 
being mother and daughters. 

The Columbus Crises. s])eaking of the episode, says : 

A few days ago a mother and two daughters, one sixteen and 
the other eighteen years of age, were sent to Camp Chase as po- 



128 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

litical prisoners from Tennessee. They are very respectable and 
intelligent ladies. This act to outsiders seems very ungallant and 
has excited a good deal of talk, and a resolution was introduced 
in the Ohio Senate by Mr. Kenny, of Ashland County, himself a 
gallant soldier, inquiring into the facts. 

IMany Confederate officers in those days lived in Columbus. 
They had given their word of honor not to attempt to escape, and 
they kept their word. They were associates of the officers of the 
regular army, or such of them as were stationed in Columbus at 
one time or another. The Eighteenth United States Infantry 
was in that city for some time, and its officers and the paroled 
Confederate officers were conspicuous figures in the hotels and 
cafes. Among those whose intimacy was most marked were 
Captain Joyce, of General Buckner's stafif, and Captain Dodge, 
of the Eighteenth Regulars. One day these gentlemen were 
dining and drinking at Wagner's, the leading cafe of Columbus, 
when a private soldier a little worse from drink entered and sa- 
luted Captain Dodge. The Captain paid no attention to the sa- 
lute. The soldier paused and addressed some remark to him, 
when Captain Joyce sprang to his feet and struck the soldier in 
the face. With his mouth bleeding he went out of the place and, 
meeting a number of his comrades, told the story of the assault. 

A crowd gathered, as many citizens as soldiers, and a riot was 
imminent. Threats were made that the Confederate must die, 
and the crowd assumed a moblike aspect. When a number of 
soldiers entered the restaurant Wagner managed to get the two 
officers out, but the crowd surrounded them upon the outside. 

'Tvill the d Rebel !" came the cries from every side. "Kill 

the other ; he is no better!" cried others. As readily would 

they have killed Captain Dodge as his Confederate friend ; but 
when they began to crowd upon and jostle the officers about, 
waiting and wishing that the Confederate would strike again, the 
police appeared and the officers were "hurried, to the American 
house. Here the crowd followed, and it was with difficulty they 
were rescued and taken to a place of safety. The papers pub- 
lished the story, and both soldiers and civilians were excited; and 
had Captain Joyce appeared upon the streets again while the ex- 
citement was high, he would probably have been shot. 



CHAPTER XII. 
The Years Crept Slowly On. 

From 1863 to 1865 — Gen. John Morgan and His Men — A Brief Review of 
His Famous Raid through Ohio — On the Road to Camp Chase — A 
Tennessee Judge Once a Boy Prisoner — The Boy and the Bowlder — • 
A Conspirac}'. 

The events at Camp Chase Prison were not narrated by the 
Columbus writers, for there was Httle to consider in the way of 
news in 1862. There was much transferring to Johnson's Island 
and to Camp Douglass, and occasionally to the Elmira (N, Y.) 
prison. The chief event of 1863 was the Morgan raid and its 
dramatic denouement. 

It was about the middle of July, 1863, that Gen. John Morgan 
and his faithful horsemen stirred Ohio from center to circumfer- 
ence. The first one of Morgan's men to arrive at Camp Chase 
was one Jacob Hix, a private, who, exhausted by the terrible 
march, fell asleep on his horse and rode for miles. Finally the 
horse wandered up a country lane far out of the line of march. 
When Hix awoke, there were no troops in sight, and he knew not 
which way to turn. He wandered on, however, and finally 
brought up in the little village of Richmond, some fifty miles 
south of Columbus. When the villagers saw a real, live Rebel 
riding leisurely along the streets, there was intense excitement. 
There was a hurried search for shotguns and the like, and one or 
two men more collected ; then the rest demanded that Hix sur- 
render, which the weary Confederate, knowing nothing of the 
country, did. After getting their prisoner something to eat, they 
took him to Chillicothe and delivered him to Deputy Provost 
Marshal Thomas J. Guin, who took him to Camp Chase. 

Monday morning, July 27, 1863, the Ohio State Journal placed 
at the head of its editorial columns with big black headline the 
following: "John Morgan Captured." The editorial said: 

The career of the great Rebel raider is ended. He and, his 
^vhole force are now in General Shackelford's possession, Mor- 
gan surrendered unconditionally at three o'clock yesterday (Sun- 
9 



130 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

day) afternoon. All honor is due the gallant and hardy boys who 
have finally captured the reckless rider of Rebeldom. Morgan 
and his command will doubtless be brought to Camp Chase. 

The Joiinial stated several days later: 

The noted raider, John Morgan, received a very handsome re- 
ception yesterday afternoon at the depot — at least so far as num- 
bers are concerned. The desire to see one who has given the 
citizens of Ohio as much trouble as this Rebel has could hardly 
have been greater than to see President Lincoln. The hero came 
on a special train, accompanied by General Shackelford and staff, 
and several other Union officers. The excitement ran high, and 
a rush was made for the train. The crowd in front feasted their 
eyes and made way for others eager to see him. The Governor, 
General Mason, and portions of their staffs were introduced to 
Morgan and shook hands with him, after which they paid their 
respects to General Shackelford. 

The cell in which General Morgan was confined is yet marked, 
and is pointed out to visitors to the Ohio penitentiary. 

The Richmond Enquirer tells of how they managed to escape: 

Their bedsteads were small iron stools fastened in the wall with 
hinges, which could be hooked up or allowed to stand on the floor. 
To prevent any suspicion, for several days before any work was 
attempted they made it a habit to let them down and sit at their 
doors and read. Captain Hines superintended the work, while 
General Morgan kept watch to divert the attention of the sentinel, 
whose duty it was to come around during the day and observe 
conditions. 

One day the sentinel came in while Hokersmith was down un- 
der the floor boring away and, missing him, said : "Where is 
Hokersmith?" The General replied, "He is in my room sick," 
and immediately pulled a document out of his pocket and said to 
him, "Here is a memorial I have drawn up to forward to the 
government at Washington. Wliat do you think of it ?" The 
sentinel, who perhaps could not read, being highly flattered at the 
General's condescension, very gravely looked at the document for 
several minutes before he vouchsafed any reply; then, handing 
it back, he expressed himself as highly pleased with it. In the 
meantime Hokersmith had been signaled and came up, professing 
to feel very unwell. 

This sentinel was the most difficult and dangerous obstacle in 
their progress, because there was no telling at what time he 
might enter in the day, and at night he came regularly every two 
hours to each cell and inserted a light through the bars of the 
doors to see that all were quietly sleeping, and frequently after 
his rounds he would slip back into the dark in India rubber shoes 



THE YEARS CREPT SLOWLY OX. 131 

and listen. The General says that he would almost invariably 
know of his presence by a certain magnetic shudder it would pro- 
duce; but for fear that his acute sensibility might sometimes fail 
him, he broke up small particles of coal and sprinkled them before 
the cell door, which would always announce the sentinel's ap- 
proach. 

About the latter part of October they began to bore. All were 
busy — one making a rope ladder by tearing and twisting up strips 
of bedticks, another making- Bowie knives, and another twisting 
towels. They labored perseveringly for several days, and after 
boring through nine inches of cement and nine thicknesses of 
brick placed edgewise they began to wonder when they would 
reach the soft earth. Suddenly a brick fell through. What could 
this mean? What infernal chamber had they reached? It was 
immediately entered, and to their great astonishment and joy, it 
proved to be an air chamber extending the whole length of the 
row of cells. Here was an unexpected interposition in their fa- 
vor. Heretofore they had been obliged to conceal their rubbish 
in bedticks, each day burning a proportionate quantity of straw ; 
now they had room enough for all they could dig. They at once 
commenced to tunnel at right angles with this air chamber, to get 
through the foundation. Day after day they bored, day after day 
the blocks of granite were removed, and still the work before 
them seemed interminable. 

After twenty-three days of unrelenting labor, and getting 
through a granite wall six feet in thickness, they reached the soil. 
They tunneled up for some distance, and light began to shine. 
How glorious was the light ! It announced the fulfillment of 
their labor ; they would soon be free. This was the morning 
of the 26th day af November, 1863. The next night at twelve 
o'clock was determined on as the hour at wdiich they would at- 
tempt to get away. Each moment was filled with dreadful anxiety 
and suspense, and each time the guard entered their apprehensions 
increased. The General says that he prayed for rain, but the 
morning of the 27th dawned bright and beautiful. The evening 
came, and the clouds began to gather. How they prayed for 
them to increase! If rain should only begin, their chances of 
detection would be greatly lessened. While these thoughts were 
passing through their mind the keeper entered with a letter for 
General Morgan. He opened it, and what was his surprise and 
wonder to find it from a poor Irish woman of his acquaintance in 
Kentucky, commencing: "My dear Ginral, I feel certain you are 
going to get out of prison, but for your sake don't try it, dear Gin- 
ral. You wdll only be taken a prisoner again and made to sufifer 
more than you do now." The letter then went on to speak of his 
kindness to the poor when he lived at Lexington, and concluded 
h} again exhorting him to trust in God and wait his time. 



13- 



THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



What could this mean? No human being on the outside had 
been informed of his intention to escape ; and yet just as all things 
v.'ere ready for him to make the attempt, here comes a letter from 
Kentucky advising him not to try it. This letter had passed 
through the examining office of General Mason, and then through 
the hands of the lower officials. What if it should excite their 
srspicion and cause them to exercise an increased vigilance? The 
sn nation, however, was desperate. Their fate could not be made 
worse, and they resolved to go. Nothing remained to be done 
but for General and Col. Dick Morgan to change cells. The 
hour approached for them to be locked up. They changed coats, 
and each stood at the other's cell door with his back exposed, and 
pretended to be engaged in making up their beds. As the turn- 
key entered they pulled their doors shut. 

Six, eight, ten o'clock came. How each pulse throbbed as they 
quietly awaited the approach of twelve ! It came ; the sentinel 
passed his rounds. After waitinp' a few moments to see if he 
intended to slip back, the signal was given and all quietly slipped 
down to the air chamber, first stuffing their flannel shirts and 
placing them in the bed as they were accustomed to lie. As they 
moved quietly along through the dark recess to the terminus 
where they were to emerge from the earth, the General prepared 
to light a match. As the lurid glare fell upon their countenance 
3 scene was presented which can never be forgotten. There were 
crouched seven brave men who had resolved to be free. 

Fortunately — yes, providentially — the night had suddenly 
grown dark and rainy , the dogs had retired, to their kennels, and 
the sentinels had taken shelter. The inner wall, by the aid of a 
rope ladder, was soon scaled, and now the outer one had to be 
attempted. Captain Taylor, a nephew of the illustrious Zack, be- 
ing a very active man, by the assistance of his comrades reached 
the top of the gate and was enabled, to get the rope extending 
all around, which the General immediately cut, as he suspected 
that it might lead into the warden's room. This turned c\yt to 
be correct. Then they entered the sentry box on tlie wall, 
changed their clothes, and crept down the wall. The General 
skinned his hand very badly and all were more or less bruised. 
Once down, they separated, Taylor and Sheldon going one way, 
Hokersmith, Bennett, and McGee another, and General Morgan 
rnd Captain Hines proceeding immediately toward the depot. 

The General had succeeded in obtaining a paper which in- 
formed him of the schedule time of the dififerent roads. The 
clock struck one, and he knew that by hurrying he could reach 
the down train for Cincinnati. He got there just as the train was 
moving off. He at once ascertained if any soldiers were on 
board; and espying a Union soldier, he boldly walked up and 
took the seat beside him. He suggested to his seat companion 



THE YEARS CREPT SLOWLY ON. 133 

that, as the night was damp and chilly, he join him in a drink. 
Ihe hospitality was accepted, and the two soon became friends. 
The cars in crossing the Scioto had to pass in a short distance of 
the penitentiary. As they passed, the officer remarked: "There 
is the hotel where Morgan and his officers are spending their 
leisure. I sincerely hope he will make up his mind to board 
there during the balance of the war, for he is a great nuisance !" 
When the train reached Xenia, it was detained by some accident 
for nearly an hour. Imagine the anxiety as soldier after sol- 
dier would pass through the train, for fear that when the sentinel 
passed his rounds at two o'clock their absence might be discov- 
ered ! 

The train was due in Cincinnati at six o'clock. This was the 
hour at which they were turned out of their cells, and of course 
their escape would be discovered. In a few mom.ents afier that 
it would be known all over the country. The train was running 
rapidly to make up the lost time. General Morgan said to Cap- 
tain Hines: "It is after six. If we go to the depot, we are dead 
men. Now or never." They then went to the rear and put on 
the brakes. Hines then jumped and fell heels over head in the 
mud. Another severe turn of the brakes, and General Morgan 
jumped. ' He was more successful, and lighted on his feet. There 
were some soldiers near, who remarked : "What do you riean by 
jumping off the cars here?" The General replied: "What is the 
use of my going into town when I live near here ? And besides, 
what business is it of yours?" 

They went immediately to the river and found a skiff, but no 
oars. Soon a little boy appeared, and seemed to be waiting. 
"What are you waiting for?" asked the General. "I am waiting 
for my load." "What is the price of your load?" "Two dol- 
lars." "Well, we are tired, and hungry. We will give you two 
dollars, and you can put us over." So over they went. The 
house of a friend was reached and a fine breakfast was obtained. 
IMoney and horses were furnished, a woman's prayers were be- 
stowed, and off they went, forward through Kentucky. Every- 
body vied with each other as to who should show them the most 
attention, even to the negroes. Young ladies of refinement even 
begged the honor of cooking their meals. 

General Morgan remained in Kentucky some days, feeling per- 
fectly safe and sending into Louisville for many little things that 
he needed,. He went to Bardstown and found that a Federal reg- 
iment had just arrived there looking for him. His escort, with 
lieroic self-sacrifice, refused to cross the river until "he was safely 
over. He then hired a negro to get his horse over. The river 
was high and the horse came near drowning, but after more than 
an hour's struggle with the stream he was pulled out so exhausted 
that he was scarcelv able to stand. 



134 T^HE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The Columbus (Ohio) Crisis had the following pleasant word 
to say about the raid : 

We received a letter Monday from Batavia, Ohio, giving some 
rather laughable accounts of Morgan's passage through that place. 
The great scare did not last long — nobody hurt : but a good many 
horses were taken by Morgan's men. Hobson's men, who were 
following Morgan, got the mail just in from Cincinnati and car- 
ried it off, but promised the ladies to return any letters for them, 
which was strictly complied with next day. One lady begged of 
them not to take her pony. They had the saddle on, but delivered 
it up. They said they did not come to disturb the ladies. 

Naturally the excitement was great in Ohio, and particularly in 
Columbus. All sorts of rumors were in circulation about col- 
lusion from penitentiary officials or persons from the outside. 
General Morgan's story is corroborated by Governor Tod, as the 
following letter will show : 

The State of Ohio, Executive Department, 
Columbus, Dec. ii, 1863. 
A^ Merioji^ Esq., Warden of Penitentiary. 

Dear Sir : Deeply chagrined and mortified as I was to hear of 
the escape of General Morgan and six other Confederate prison- 
ers, I am glad to know from the report of Messrs. Wright and 
Hoffman, just handed to me, that there is not the slightest evi- 
dence to be found of fraud and corruption on the part of the 
officers, either civil or military, in whose custody the prisoners 
were, nor on the part of any individual or citizen wii-hout or 
M'ithin the prison ; but that the sole reason for their escape is to 
be found in the misunderstanding of General Mason and your- 
self as to which of you should be responsible for, and have the 
care and inspection of, the prison cells. 

To avoid, a like occurrence, I have now to request that you take 
upon yourself the entire charge and responsibility of the safe- 
keeping of the prisoners. I have furnished Colonel Wallace, Com- 
niander of the Post, with a copy of this letter of instruction, and 
directed him to conform his actions thereto. 

Respectfully yours, (Signed)' David Tod, Governor. 

The announcement was made in the Columbus papers of De- 
cember 25, 1863, of the arrival at Camp Chase of Colonel Carter, 
late commander of the famous Black Horse Cavalry of Mrginia, 
that made the famous charge on the Union lines at the battle of 
Bull Run. "That redoubtable body of horsemen," said the Ohio 
State Journal, "which constituted the flower of Stuart's cavalrv 



THE YEARS CREPT SLOWLY ON. 135 

division, has been entirely used up. The Colonel Carter men- 
tioned was one who in the \"irginia Convention persistently op- 
posed secession." 

There arrived on May 13, 1863. a number of prisoners under 
charge of Lieutenant Thorpe, of a ^lichigan regiment, and a set 
of resolutions were presented by the prisoners iliat leave a bit 
of brightness on the usual somber canvas of the prison scene : 

On the Road to Camp Chase. 

Thinking as we do that justice should be done in all cases, we 
take this occasion to return our sincere and heartfelt thanks to 
Lieut. D. D. Thorpe for his kindness and gentlemanly treatment 
toward us. May he and the kind guards who accompanied him 
with us to Camp Chase continue to exercise their courtesies ! for 
they will find that humanity is a great comforter in this vale of 
tears. 

We hope to live and know that Lieutenant Thorpe shall wear 
an eagle on his shoulders. 

With kind regards. J. H. Triplett, J. IL Thomson, T- R- Bette- 
son, W. C. S. Wetmore, E. P. Smith, J. R. Smith, R. V. Hamilton, 
V/. T. Drodley, J. Kindall, J. Meneer, S. Everman, H. C. Molen, 
B. Braidy, T- Giboret, E. Murphv, T. Harrison, H. Rogers, S. 
Aikins, W. T. Armstrong, E. W.^Lyons, J. W. Aldudge, G. W. 
Marshall, T- T. Harwood,. J. Borris, W. Jones, D. C. Clark, G. 
Vessey, M. Mills, W. Kindell, L. Bianitt, C. H. Johnson, J. 
Henry, and twenty-five others. 

Mr. J. Edward Sims, a writer on the Press-Post, of Columbus. 
paid a visit not long since to Chattanooga, Tenn., and while there 
met Judge Cowart, famous for having been a member of the 
court of Hamilton County nearly ever since he was old enough. 
The Judge insists that he was but twelve years of age when he 
came to Camp Chase. It was on account of his youth, no doubt, 
that he fared so well. Learning that ]\Ir. Sims was from Colum- 
bus, Judge Cowart remarked that he knew something about Co- 
lumbus, or a place near there. He then told of his imprisonment 
at Camp Chase and of the only act that he was ever sorry for 
while in prison there. 

'T was not in prison long," said the Judge, "until I fell into 
the good graces of a Union lieutenant, who treated me with great 
kindness. I was permitted many liberties, and was allowed to go 
across the road to the Four-Mile House to get water. One day 
a raw recruit who did not know about the freedom accorded me 



136 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

was on guard, and, seeing me go out of the camp, began to curse 
me and threatened to shoot. Fearing that he might fulfill his 
threats, I hastened back, but swore vengeance. I laid in a good 
stock of b'^"/lders unperceived by the guards and waited for the 
raw recruit. In a short time he was on duty again, but this time 
on the wall, overlooking the prison. Being permitted to go out 
at will, by the orders of the lieutenant, I found an advantageous 
point for my stone battery. The* first fire was sufficient to put the 
guard out of duty. The stone struck him in the face, and he 
reeled and fell from the parapet. He was unconscious for some 
time. It is unnecessary to say that I beat a hasty retreat. I was 
not discovered. For several days quite a hunt was made ; but be- 
ing an innocent-appearing lad, I was never suspected." Not even 
to his brother, who was in prison at the same time, did young 
Cowart tell the story of the assault until they were exchanged 
and were entering Richmond. The Judge assured Mr. Sims thit 
his treatment by the lieutenant was all that could be desired. He 
was not only accorded unusual liberties, but his brother was well 
treated. 

In the fall of 1863 there was talk of removing the prison to 
some locality more healthful. If it was unhealthy for the prison- 
ers, it was equally so for the soldiers of the North, although their 
greater liberty was altogether in their favor. The Ohio State 
Journal of September i, 1863, says: "Whatever credit is due for 
the idea of removing Camp Chase from its present filthy location 
attaches to General Mason. At his instance the survey and ex- 
amination had been made and the estimate of cost sent to Wash- 
ington." Nothing came of the efifort, as. is well known, for the 
last Confederate prisoner to leave Columbus for his Southern 
home went from Camp Chase Prison. 

A story of conspiracy was published in the Ohio papers of 
November 2, 1863, that caused much excitement : 

It appears that for some time past the United States military 
and civil authorities have been engaged in ferreting out the exist- 
ence of a secret organization of the most treasonable nature. 
There have been in circulation various rumors relative to the 
treasonable design of certain persons who, it seems, were mem- 
bers of this organization; but nothing' definite was known upon 
the subject except to a few officials, who have been diligent in 
pursuit of evidence to fasten the guilt upon the parties concerned ; 
and this having been secured and other things being in readiness, 



THE YEARS CREPT SEOWLY OX. 137 

tiie blow was struck yesterday morning. State School Commis- 
sioner C. \V. H. Cathcart, Nathan Cressup, who was a cutter in 
Child's clothing establishment, a man who gave his name as Slade, 
and Dr. Lazelle, a Rebel surgeon on parole, were all arrested yes- 
terday morning, and are now in charge of the proper authorities 
for safe-keeping. They are all charged with aiding and abetting" 
the rebellion by furnishing means and information to the enemy, 
and have been taken on a special train to Cincinnati. Slade is 
supposed to be a spy in the Rebel service, and has been arrested 
before on a similar charge ; and when he was taken yesterday- 
he boasted that he would get away, as he had done on previous 
occasions. He was in irons and was closely watched. Lazelle's 
arrest was made by the provost guard on the ground that he had 
broken his parole in addition to his complicity with the jther par- 
ties. Three more men have doubtless been arrested ere this, as 
the officers were in search of them last evening. In addition, sev- 
enteen men were also taken yesterday in Cincinnati on the same 
charge, and other arrests were to be made in several places. 

Another report was as follows : 

• An extraordinary case of treason has recently come to light, 
implicating several persons in this city, Columbus, Covington, and 
Newport in a conspiracy to release the Rebel prisoners at Camp 
Chase and overthrow the State government. 

The conspiracy was brought to light by United States de- 
tectives, who were supposed by the parties to be spies from the 
Rebel army and w^ere treated with full confidence. The plot as 
declared to the detectives was that an attack would be made on 
Camp Chase, the prisoners (three thousand five hundred in num- 
ber) released, and the arsenal at Columbus seized. It was also 
planned to take possession of the penitentiary, release John Mor- 
gan and other officers confined there, and then to commence a 
Rebel campaign in Ohio. 

United States IMarshal Sands and Provost Marshal Piany arrest- 
ed the persons implicated in the plot: Charles W. H. Cathcart, 
of Columbus, School Commissioner ; Mr. Cressup, of Columbus, 
and formerly a sutler in the Eighteenth Regulars, who were to 
lead the attack on Camp Chase; James D. Patton, of Covington, 
a regular agent of the Rebel government, who frequently fur- 
nished money to detectives under the impression that they were 
spies, and, according to agreement, met Carthcart and others at 
Camp Chase and assisted in maturing the plans for the attack ; 
Ruth McDonald, of Covington, who acted as mail carrier through 
the Rebel lines, and whose house was headquarters of the Rebels ; 
Samuel P. Thomas, a merchant tailor, of Cincinnati, his wife, and 
Catharine Parmenter, of Cincinnati, from whom information was 
obtained that an organization exists in Illinois, waiting for the 



138 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

outbreak in Ohio to produce similar results in that State. Other 
particulars are known to the authorities, but not yet made public. 

The arrested parties were kept in prison a short time and ad- 
mitted to bail. While the report of the detectives was sensational 
and caused no little excitement in the State, there was nothing 
done in the matter and all were finally released. 

In 1865 there was a commission appointed by Governor Brough, 
of Ohio, to consider and allow claims for damages to citizens on 
account of the Morgan raid. The amount allowed came to 
$576,225. The sum asked for was $678,915. It was claimed that 
Morgan damaged the people of ( )hio to the amount of $493,372. 
The other damage came from United States and the militia forces 
that followed the ^lorgan command. 

The peace Democrats of Southern Ohio and Indiana welcomed 
General Morgan gladly in most cases, and did not fail to tell 
him that they were his true friends. The General, ever polite and 
gallant, smiled upon them, but did not hesitate to take the.r 
horses. The most rampant hater of secession did not fare worse 
than did these men who told their friendship. Some of the Gen- 
eral's men, more diplomatic than their leader, usually replied that 
if they were as friendly as they claimed they should willingly fur- 
nish a few horses. When the commission was appointed to pass 
upon the claims for damages, these men were promptly on hand 
with an itemized bill of the damages inflicted by the enemy. 

There appeared in the Northern papers of July 8, 1864, an item 
\n which three of General Morgan's men figured. The dispatch 
stated that a United, States steamer took to New York thirty-one 
prisoners captured on board the prize steamer Thistle, a vessel 
captured while attempting to run the blockade at Wilmington, 
N. C. The prisoners made claim that they were British subjects, 
and twenty-eight of them were discharged by Marshal Murray 
under instructions from the War Department relating to foreign 
subjects violating the blockade. The remaining three, whose 
names were James Crowders, Charles Drake, and J. D. Allison, 
were discovered to be Kentuckians, formerly prisoners at Camp 
Chase, wdio had escaped and made their way to Canada. They 
proceeded by way of Halifax to Nassau, and from there they 
sailed for Wilmington, N. C. These facts were elicited by the 
closest examination, for the prisoners possessed great shrewdness 



THE YEARS CREPT SLOWLY ON. 139 

and ability. They were taken to Fort Lafayette, from where it 
was considered more difficult to escape than from Camp Chase. 

On May 18, 1865, the Columbus papers told about the depar- 
ture of hundreds of Confederate prisoners for their homes. Up 
to that time 538 were exchang^ed, or rather given transportation, 
after taking the oath of allegiance. From the ist of May to 
the 1 8th 1,870 prisoners had been discharged, and there were 
left about 3400. All of this number were anxiously awaiting 
their turns to go. with the exception of fourteen who refused to 
take the oath of allegiance. On June 20 there were less than fifty 
Confederate prisoners remaining in Camp Chase. All the others 
had returned to their homes in the South. 

When the last Southern soldier had left Camp Chase, there 
arrived forty-five men from Little Rock, Ark., bound for the 
C)hio penitentiary. The prisoners had been sentenced by court- 
martial for various offenses, none of which were political. They 
were charged with larceny, burglary, and assault with intent t^; 
kill. There were one Confederate captain, forty-two enlisted 
men, two citizens, and the guerrilla, Cyrus Chappel, who had been 
sentenced to be hanged, but whose sentence was commuted to ten 
years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

After Forty-Two Years. 

The Intercepted Letters Found in the Ohio State House by State Li- 
brarian Galbreath — Some of the Letters Photographed — Some Letters 
from Down South — List of Letters Not Used in This Volume — His- 
tory of \lrs. Clark, by Her Son, Frank P. Clark. 

When the work of preparing the history of Camp Chase was 
ahnost completed, A-Ir. C. B. Galbreath, State Librarian, was kind 
enough to send the following letter to the author : 

Columbus, Ohio, August 30, 1904. 
Dear Colonel Knauss. 

I am pleased to learn that you are having prepared a history of 
the Confederate prisons of Ohio. Permit me to invite your at- 
tention to a collection of manuscript letters in the State Library 
that may be of service to you. 

When the material of the library was classified and rearranged, 
these letters were discovered in a place where they had evidently 
lain unmolested for years in dust and obscurity. Upon examina- 
tion, most of them were found to have been written by Confed- 
erate prisoners at Camp Chase. They were transferred to our 
manuscript department, where they will be permanently pre- 
served. 

I do not know how the letters originally came into the posses- 
sion of the library. I have read only a few of them. In the hope 
that among them may be found something of interest to the 
numerous readers of your forthcoming volume, I take pleasure 
in offering you for reference use this manuscript collection. 

Verv trulv vours, 




State Librarian. 



That there are those living to-day who wrote some of these 
letters is presumed. The sons and daughters of many others are 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 



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doubtless living; and surely a letter so long buried in the mystery 
that surrounds these would be of rare interest. How they came 
to be put away in a sort of lumber room in the State House at 
Columbus, no one knows. One thing is certain : they were never 
kept from the South by orders of Governor Tod, who was a most 
humane man and who extended every courtesy to the prisoners 
possible. It is unwritten history in Ohio that he was defeated 
for nomination for a second term because of his humanity — not 
simply to the Southern prisoners, but to the boy in the ranks who 
by bravery earned promotion. Many rich and influential fam- 
ilies appealed in vain to Governor Tod to give commissions to 
their sons at the expense of the brave boys who had risked their 
lives on the battlefields. 

Interesting as these are, only a portion of them can be used. 
As will be observed, the letters not published were gone over and 
addresses given when it was possible to do so. This is done that 
any survivor of the prison not mentioned by letter, and whose 
"name appears in the list of unpublished letters, can write for a 
copy of same by giving the number of the letter. 

It is fitting, therefore, that the letters found after so many years 
be herein introduced. The first is from the gallant officer, so kindly 
alluded to by Colonel Barbier, Thomas J. Carruthers, Lieutenant 
of Heavy Artillery : 

Camp Chase, Prison No. 3, 

Columbus, Ohio, April 20, 1862. 
Rev. John K. Harrison. 

My Dear Friend : You may be surprised at hearing from me 
away up here, but the fortunes of war are varied. I am at least 
a prisoner of war — was surrendered at Island No. 10, of which 
surrender you have doubtless heard. I was sick, but am now much 
better. I was making my escape with seven or eight of our com- 
pany to a farmhouse. The whole command was surrendered the 
same night. 

I do not know what became of brother and the balance of the 
company. I would like much to hear from him. He may be 
here, as there are more of the Island No. 10 prisoners in the other 
prisons — there being three separate prisons, numbered i, 2, and 
3. We had a terrible time of it on the island. I know you 
must have stirring times about Jackson. We get the papers 
in here every day. We fare very well — are well cared for, have 
plenty to eat and good houses to stay in. This prison contains 
three acres, inclosed with a high plank wall, on which the senti- 



142 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

rsels walk. There are about eight hundred prisoners here. We 
are not permitted to go outside ; we can get anything we want, 
though. The people are kind and accommodating. Tell our 
friends we are not suffering. I should like to write you a long 
letter, but the rules forbid. Mrs. Clark, a sister of the Moons, 
of Memphis, will take this across the lines to Richmond. 

God bless you, my Christian friend ! 

Your friend, Thos. J. Carruthers, Lieutenant. 

In some of the letters severe criticisms upon the course pursued 
by General Mackall, the commander of Island No. 10, in regard 
to the surrender were ma^ie, and in others his course was defend- 
ed. Lieut. J. T. Menefee, of, the First Alabama Infantry, wrote: 

Camp Ch.\se, April 20, 1862. 
Dear Father: 

As you are aware, I am a prisoner of war. We endured much 
and suffered much, and I have been sick, quite sick ; given up 
to die with cramp colic ; but am still living, thank God ! I hope 
to be entirely well in a few days. Captain Rush and Lieutenant 
Listrunk are here with me. 

The company was sent to Chicago. We were not allowed to 
tell them good-by. This was attributable to hurry, and not in- 
humanity, on the part of our enemies. The separation occurred 
at New Madrid. We accomplished everything General Beaure- 
gard expected, and that was to hold in check a large column of 
the enemy. This we did for eight weeks. We are here without 
clothing except that upon our backs, and also without money to 
buy what we need. 

They feed us well, but sick men want something else besides 
what we draw. If there is any chance to get us gold, I wish you, 
B. Rush, and B. Campbell, who is Listrunk's friend, would ar- 
range with Hon. D. Clopton to do so. I send you herewith au- 
thority to draw sufficient to buy, say, fifty dollars in gold fpr me. 

Kiss my little boy and see that he is well trained. God bless 
the poor little motherless and now almost fatherless fellow ! 

Your son, J. T. Menefee. 

Camp Chase, April 21, 1862. 
Hon. David Clopton, Richmond, Va. 

I hereby authorize and empower you to make out my pay ac- 
count from the 31st of December, '61, to the ist of May, '62, and 
in my name draw the same from the Confederate States of 
America. 



AFTER FORrV-TlVO YEARS 143 

This I hope you will do, as I need the money. Your kindness 
in this will add to the obligations I am always under. 
Respectfully, 

J. T. Menefee, First Lieutenant First Ala. Regt. 
Attest: C. C. Knowles, Lieutenant; J. W. Rush, Captain. 

Capt. Jackson, of the First Alabama, has a few words to say 
about the battle at Fort Donelson to the Hon. David Clopton, a 
Senator or Representative at Richmond : 

r, T-, -J r-i Ai Camp Chase, April 22, 1862. 

Hon. David Clopton. ' ^ 

Sir : I was surrendered with ninety-six men, all from Ala- 
bama, and we are now confined in prison for the want of general- 
ship upon our part. I am sorry to say that we were badly out- 
generaled at Fort Donelson. We have comfortable quarters and 
good rations, and we are very kindly treated. We all are in good 
health. I want you to write to my father, William Jackson, and 
tell him that I am well. Write to Erin, Ga., Pike County; also 
G. W. Jackson, the same address. And I want you to send me 
some money. 

When I was taken prisoner I had but little money; and now I 
have not one dollar; and if you will send me some, call upon 
William Jackson, Erin, Tallapoosa County, Ala., eighteen miles 
north of Dadeville, at Newsite ; or you can hold my wages in the 
army, which is now $500. I am sure we could get the money 
that way. This lady (Mrs. Clark) is doing all she can for our 
comfort. I wish you to do all you can to have us exchanged. 
My home is at Newsite, Tallapoosa. Examine the records at 
Richmond and you will find my company upon the records. 

I do not know whether you will ever get this, but I think Mrs. 
Clark will carry it to Richmond ; but you may be at home. 

Truly yoursl^ J. P. Jackson, Ccptahi. 

nr TT-n- t j CamP ChaSE, April 22, 1862. 

itir. Ivilltain Jackson. ^ ^ , i , 

My Dear Father: There is a kind lady by the name of Mrs. 
Clark going to Richmond from here, and I hope you may get 
my letter. I am sorry to say to you, father, that I am a prisoner 
of war, but proud that I am well and hearty and weigh more than 
you ever saw me. The disadvantage that I labor under is my 
clothes are all too small for me. We have good quarters and 
good rations and very kind treatment. 

I would like if you would go to Alabama and look after my 
family; and if they will go, I want you to move them to Georgid, 
as I can't tell when I will get home, but when I do get there I 
will have money to pay for all they consume. I think it best for 
mv familv to move to Georgia. 



144 '^^^^ STORY OF C.nir CHASE. 

After three days' hard fighting at Donelson, we were compelled 
to surrender. I had only one man killed in my company. Our 
loss was great, and I never want to see another battlefield. It 
was fearful to me to look over the field and see the blood run 
from my fellow-man. I felt the wind of many a bullet, but 
fortunately escaped unhurt. We were in the heat of the battle, 
and my company bore the colors. I would write more, but I do 
not want to trouble Governor Tod to read so much, as he is kind 
enough to let us write. He is very much of a gentleman and 
very kind to us. May God bless you and family ! 

J. P. Jackson, Captain. 



Dear Wife : This is th ? first chance I have had to write you, 
and I don't know whether this will go through. I am well and 
liearty. so well that my clothes are getting too small for me. I 
think I shall weigh two hundred by the time I get home. The 
health of my company is good. W^e have plenty of good rations 
liere, and are well treated. I want you to attend to my business 
the best you can until I get home. I can't tell anything about 
when that may be. Rear our children for God and our country; 
and if I never see you any more, tell them to think well of their 
father. 

I think it would be the best thing to sell all my effects except 
the land and go to Georgia and live there until I get home. Do 
just as you think best. Kiss the children for me. 

J. P. Jackson, Captain. 

Prisoner of War. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. 
General Curncs. 

Dear Cousin : Knowing the uncertainty of the country mails 
in Dixieland, I address you, hoping you may communicate to my 
father's family the following intelligence: that I am a prisoner of 
war at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; surrendered at Fort Don- 
elson. All the officers of our regiment are with me. The pri- 
vates were sent to Springfield, 111. All were well at the last 
account. Basnet Cracey is with them, and well. We enjoy pris- 
on life better than I expected ; our only uneasiness is in regard 
to our friends at home. I have written several letters home, but 
have received no assurance that any of them reached their des- 
tination. 

I want for nothing here and am enjoying excellent health. 
Have a prospect, through the influence of Kentucky friends, of a 
parole of honor, but I may not succeed. Please transmit the 
above to my father, and write me. . 

Yours. John G. Hall. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 145 

The following letter to a prisoner at Camp Chase is of interest, 
but the name of the prisoner is unknown, as the letter simply 
uses his Christian name. The envelope by some means was lost. 
The Dr. Hoge mentioned in the letter was an eminent divine, a 
man known far and near for his learning as well as his Christian 
graces. He was at that time pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Columbus. His death occurred in 1864: 



DoBBS Ferry, N. Y., July 25, 1862. 

Dear Robert : Some three weeks ago we heard that you had 
been wounded and taken prisoner at Shiloh. I wrote immediately 
to Chicago and to Louisville, but could hear nothing from you. 
This morning, in a letter by Wilson Bruce, I found that you are 
at Columbus, Ohio. 

I hope you were not seriously wounded and are now recovering. 
You should have written to us at once. To-day I write Dr. Hoge, 
of Columbus, to see you and do what he can to make you com- 
fortable. Write, if possible, by return mail and let us know par- 
ticularly how you are and if you are in need of anything we can 
supply. If you are capable of being moved and could be lib- 
erated on parole, come here, and we will gladly do all we can to 
make you well. 

We heard from Mobile, through Mr. Bargett, about a month 
ago. He and Mrs. Bargett left Mobile about the 13th of May to 
run the blockade. They were captured by a United States vessel 
and brought to New York. They were most kindly treated by 
the United States officers and were at once liberated. When the 
Bargetts left Mobile your father and mother were quite well. 
They do not know much about the children. All the women and 
children who could get away were sent from the city to th.e 
country. Your Aunt Sarah will close this note. 

Yours trulv. A\'. Meikle. 



Dear Robby : We were so sorry to hear you were w^ounded. 
C)ur great desire is to get you to our home to nurse you, if you 
can possibly be moved. We will send you the mone}- to bring 
you on, if you caa come. 

I thought of going to see General Scott, if be could do any- 
thing for you ; you know he was an old friend of your grand- 
father's, i do hope, Robby, you will keep up a good heart ; 
your mother's prayers, which are many, will surely be answered, 
and God will take care of you. I have but a few moments to send 
this to the post office. 

Your affectionate Aunt Sarah. 

10 



146 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Few letters of the many found in the lumber room at the Ohio 
Statehouse contain more genuine pathos than the one written 
by Lieut. P. L. Dotson to his wife in April, 1862. There is not 
a man in the North who may read this letter but will wish that 
the Lieutenant returned safely to this good wife, Mary, and "Lit- 
tle Bob." 

The swiftly flying years have left age marks on little Bob, if he 
be living, and it would afford no little pleasure to those who 
made this late reading of his father's letter possible if he should 
find it in this volume. 

From Lieut. P. L. Dotson, Company D, Twentieth Regiment, 
Mississippi Volunteers, Prisoner of War, to Mary W. Dotson, 
Brooksville, Miss. : 

Dear Wife: I take this opportunity to write to you. This 
leaves me well, and I hope it may find you well also. O, I want to 
see you so much ! I have thought that I wanted to see you be- 
fore, but I did not know anything about it. I hope I will see you 
and my sweet little Bob one of these days. Here the days seem 
as long as months, but if I were with you all would be right. 

I feel happy sometimes when I think I have done my duty ; but 
when I look around on my condition, and know that I am so far 
from you and little Bob my heart sinks. It is not so hard to be 
a prisoner, after all, for we get plenty to eat and are treated very 
well. O, I hope it will work out right, whether for our good or 
not. I think I will end my days with you, whom I prize dearer 
than my life. O, Mary, it sends a thrill of happiness to my soul 
to think I will be with you by and by! Be of good cheer; there 
is a better day coming. Although I am in prison, I have much 
fun. We play marbles and the boys fiddle and do anything to 
keep our spirits up, or do anything amusing, and so don't be un- 
easy. I think I will get home in July, and then I will stay with 
you for some time. I have been in camp and in a fight that 
lasted nearly a week, and now I am in Camp Chase ; and when I 
get out of this, I will return, I hope, to stay with you. I alway.s 
found in my Mary a kind and good wife ; and O, if I could be 
with you to-day and go to church with you ! It can't be happi- 
ness to you, sweet one, to go there and not see your own dear 
boy sitting in his own easy way close by you and little Bob. 

I trust this war will soon stop. I hope, Mary, I shall see you 
again; but it may be possible that I shall never hold my dear 
one in my arms again. I pray to the Being on high to protect 
you and little Bob. 

Mary, I have volumes to tell you, dear one, of the battlefield, 
but I can't tell it here, and you must be brave and stand it out. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 147 

Tell Bob to be a good little boy and mind his ma, and that 
his pa is thinking of him and his ma all the time. O, I never 
think of anything else ! I will close by saying : Teach him to love 
his pa and ma. Farewell ; may God be with you and protect you ! 
Kiss Bob for me. P. L. Dotson, 

In Chapter XI. the Journal mentions the name of Lieutenant 
Dotson as having arrived March i, 1862, with a number of others. 



Camp Chase, April 20, 1862. 

My Dear Merritt : You have doubtless heard of the surrender 
01 our forces at Island No. 10, which included the B'irst Alabama. 
We all regretted this much, but we were surrendered, without 
knowledge or consent. Our boys stood up to the enemy like men 
and brave soldiers. We were drawn up in line of battle in sight 
of the enemy several times, and not one of them, I am glad to 
say, flinched in the least, but, on the contrary, were perfectly 
cool and determined. I was very proud of them, indeed, and 
love each one of them as a dear friend. 

After our surrender we were separated, the officers being sent 
here and the men to Chicago or Springfield. It was hard for me 
to part with them, and they seemed to feel it much ; but such is 
war. We are very well treated here, but are closely confined. 
We are anxious to get South. Some of the boys, T believe, made 
their escape. Lieutenants Hall and Tuttle are here, and are well. 

Your friend, I. F. Whitefiei.d. 

To Lieut. M. C. Pratt, Prattsville, Ala. 



Camp Chase Prison, April 21, 1862. 

Dear Beloved Wife: It is by the blessing of God that I am 
permitted to drop you a few lines to let you know that I am in 
reasonable health at this time, hoping these few lines may find 
you enjoying the same blessings when they come to hand. I have 
nothing of interest to write you, but many things to tell you, if we 
ever meet again, which I hope will be the case, and under betcer 
circumstances than the present. I can say that I was sadly dis- 
appointed in my treatment ; it has been far better than I expected. 
So far it is very good ; and there is but one thing I fear, and that 
is disease. We have some cases of smallpox in prison at this 
time. I hope that I may escape it. 

I hope that we may be permitted to spend some happy day:; 
together soon. I cannot tell at this time. If you ever see i-iie. 
you will find me the very same. For the present I close by 
signing myself your loving husband until death. 

With love, D. R. Fletcher. 



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130 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 1862. 
W. S. Greary. 

Dear Sir: I write to let you know where and how I am. I 
am a prisoner of war ; was taken February 14. I was forwarded 
from Bowling Green to Louisville, but was kept several days with 
the army, to be exchanged ; and as there was no proposition made, 
I was sent forward from Louisville and on to this place. I have 
been treated with the greatest kindness while at Bowling Green. 
I was on parole and was quite a show to the Federals, for I was 
the first Rebel some of the officers had ever seen. When I was 
in my room, there was always a crowd of officers. When our 
prisoners are sick they are sent to the hospitals and are there well 
cared for, besides being visited by man's guardian angels- 
women. 

Give mv regards to the boys ; also to Hiram. 

Respectfully. S. W. Gassarvay. 

To W. S. Greary, Corinth, Miss. 

Camp Chase, Prison No. 3. Columbus, Ohio. 

My Dear Wife: I expect you are in a good deal of trouble 
about me. I want you to give yourself as little bother about me 
as possible, for we are treated as kindly as prisoners deserve. We 
have good shanties, furnished with good cook stoves, and have 
plenty of good, wholesome food to eat. The only thing that is bad 
is liberty. We can't go home or anywhere else farther than our 
prison bounds. 

I want you to do the best you can until I come home; I can't 
tell when that will be. E. H. Stewart is with me; let his wife 
know that he is well. J. G. Hall was left at Madrid Bend, and 
Vve have heard nothing from him since the privates were sent to 
Chicago. All the officers of the Eleventh Arkansas Regiment are 
here and a great many from Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, 
and Kentucky. I do not know the number. Write to me. 

Yours ever until death, J. M. Sanders. 

To Mrs. J. M. Sanders, Rock fort. Ark. 

Camp Chase, April 21. 

My Dear Wife : If you received my letter from Island No. 10, 
you are not surprised to learn that I am a prisoner of war. We 
have comfortable quarters, plenty of everything to eat, and are 
kindly treated. My health is very good. I bear my lot with for- 
titude, and my only trouble is on your account. Be of good cheer, 
my dear wife. Write short letters and nothing contraband, or 
they will not be permitted to come. May God bless and protect 
you and my dear children ! 

Your faithful husband, A. J. Evans. 

To Mrs. Augusta Evans. Okolona. Chickasaw Co., Miss. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 151 

Camp Chase Prison, Mess 3, April 21, 1862. 

Ho}h Landon C. Haynes, U. S. Senator, Richmond. 

Dear Sir : I am a prisoner of war in Camp Chase. I am a 
first lieutenant in the Fiftieth Tennessee Regiment, surrendered 
at Fort Donelson. I am feeble in health, and am very anxious to 
be exchanged. 

By the bearer of this I have written to Colonel Wigfall, United 
States Senator from Texas, asking his influence in carrying out 
a plan for my exchange. I imagine the most expeditious way to 
effect an exchange is to select an officer of my rank, who is a 
prisoner in the South, and release him on parole to visit Wash- 
ington and have me released, or, in case he failed in that, to 
return to his status in prison. Knowing that the Confederate 
government has such a prisoner, by the name of Lieutenant Riley, 
of the Forty-Seventh New York, I have selected him as a suitable 
man to have exchanged for me. 

I feel the more confidence in asking your influence from the 
fact that you are well acquainted with my brother-in-law, Frank 
E. Williams, of Rush, Tex., formerly of East Tennessee ; and 
also from a fact (which, perhaps, you are not aware of) that 
I was the first man to suggest through the public prints your name 
as a suitable man for Confederate Senator. Can I hope that you 
will cooperate with General Wigfall in procuring my release ? 

Hoping through your influence to soon be beneath the skies of 
Dixie, I remain, my dear sir, very respectfully yours, 

John Ward. 

Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, 
May 31, 1862. 
Mr. Valentine IViss. 

My Dear Sir : Sometime ago I asked Colonel Gantt where 
his men were sent. He could not tell me, but presumed Chicago. 
I wrote you anyway, and directed it there, and, having received 
no reply, concluded that the letter never reached you. I have 
made various inquiries, but could never hear a word from Wiss. 
Why is it that you and Dr. Green could not write to me? H 
you don't, I will take all the sewing from you I can and do 
other little underhanded tricks, and of course my influence will 
seriously damage the bugler's future chances. In view of these 
threats, I think you will readily see it will be greatly to your in- 
terest to write. Tell Jerry if he doesn't write I will do all I can 
when I go home to injure his very flattering prospects on Haley's 
Creek. 

From accounts, you have all heard from old Hickman oftener 
than we did. Be sure to write me on receipt of this. All are 
well here. 

Your friend, John F. Gray. 



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Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
April 21, 1862. 

Dear Sister: I was taken prisoner at Island No. 10 the 8th 
instant. We remamed there one night and left on boat for Cairo; 
from that place to this by rail. My health is good. We have 
better quarters and better treatment than a great many in your 
section of the country would suppose. We live in plank houses, 
and have the same amount of provisions and clothing that Federal 
soldiers do. We have free access to about six acres of land. 

Yours, J. M. Wall. 

To Mrs. EvaJina Jones, Tickfaw Station, Livingston Parish, La. 

Camp Chase Prison, April 20, 1862. 

My Dear Sister: As Mrs. Moon has a permit to visit Virginia, 
she has kindly offered to take letters along with her. My health 
has been very good since I have been a prisoner. I have been 
confined in rather a small prison, but now we have a larger one 
and I have more fresh air. I am engaged in making rings of but- 
tons. I set them with pearl sets, which I sell and get money to 
buy different things with. I can't tell you when I will be home, 
but trust in God I will see you sometime. Give my regards to 
all inquiring friends. 

I remain, your loving brother, W. H. Miller. 

Miss E. Miller, Luray, Va. 

Camp Chase, April 22, 1862. 

My Precious Wife : To reheve your anxiety, if possible, I shall 
try to give you as accurate an account of my past as the cpace will 
permit and tell you how I am situated at present. While at 
Madrid and Lsland No. 10 we suffered severely day and night for 
eight weeks, or nearly so. Rain, snow, sleet, ditching, marching, 
watching — in a single word, soldiering — used us up. For ten 
days we all thought our doom was sealed either to surrender or be 
slaughtered at any hour. We were surrendered on the 8th. My 
health had become good, and I was present at the surrender, 
commanding my men to stack arms with a sad heart. The men 
were separated from us the same day, and I have not seen them 
since. They were sent either to Chicago or Springfield. The 
officers of the line and the staff were all sent here and the field 
officers to Fort Warren. 

Now, my dear, I want you to be cheerful, for my health is 
good, except a cold, which I hope soon to be rid of, and the 
treatment we all receive is very courteous and kind. Indeed, so 
clever are they that I am much astonished. To be a prisoner of 
war is not such a very bad thing, were it not for the absence from 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 153 

loved ones and duty. We are in good houses, cook on stoves, 
and have plenty of wood, water, and wholesome food. 

When you hear of barbarity, cruelty, and the like, just say it Is 
all false. I have not seen the least bit of it, and don't believe it is 
')racticed anywhere. 

My roommates are Lieutenants Alenefee and Listrunk, with 
ten others, officers of the First Alabama Regiment. Captain 
Lacke, Captain Sullins, of Tuskegee, Lieutenants Andrews and 
Riley, of Pike County, Lieutenant Gilland and Captain Ramsey, 
of Wilcox, are among them. I found my old schoolmate, Dick 
Hall, of Autaugo, who is here, and Lieutenant Knowles, of j\Ia- 
c<-Mi County. I met here a cousin whom I had never seen before — 
Captain Mooney, of Arkansas. You see how strange are the 
fortunes of war. 

We are like brothers and enjoy ourselves as well as we can, but 
are restive, of course, when we think of home. Everything I had 
w as lost except the clothes upon my body at the time, and I have 
not a cent of current money. If Ben can make arrangements to 
send me some, I will be very much obliged. Indeed, I will. 

We are all as poor as church mice. If the friends of all our 
men should send money, some good men could be selected who 
would be allowed to bring it to us. 

From James Dcclcr to Sarah A. C. Dcelcr. Kosciusko, Miss. 

Camp Chase, Ohio, April 25, 1862. 

Dear W^ife and Little Daughter : I write to tell you that I 
am getting along tolerably well since I was captured at Fort 
Donelson. Sally, I do want to see you and little Mary very much. 
The time seems long since I last saw you. I do hope and trust 
this difficulty will soon be settled, for I am weary of it. The offi- 
cers and the privates are separated, and I have not seen any of the 
company since the 25th of February. I got a letter from Gus 
sometime ago. and they were all tolerably well. Some of the 
boys are dead. A. D. Roberts has been sick, but is getting 
better. I do hope I will get to see you before long. 

Your affectionate husband until death. 

Dear Father, Mother, and Sisters : I inclose my letter to 
}ou, father, and I want you to take care of what I have, and take 
good care of Sally and little Mary until I come home. Father, 
try to get me exchanged, for no man wants to stay in prison. W^e 
are well cared for here; the confinement is what I object to most. 
We have not room enough to exercise, but we are very well 
treated. I am lighter in weight than ever you saw me since I 
grew up. 

Your son. James Deeler. 

From James Deeler to Sarah A. C. Deeler, Kosciusko, Miss. 



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156 THE STORY OF CAMP' CHASE. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
April 20, 1862. 

Dear Jane : I have written you fully all the particulars in re- 
gard to our surrender at Island 10 on the 8th instant. Fifty- 
three of my company were included in the surrender, a list of 
which I herewith inclose. Have it published in the Herald [The 
list of names mentioned appears in the back of this history. — x\u- 
TiioR.]. that all our friends may see it. All the officers- were sep- 
arated from their companies at New Madrid. My boy was well 
when I left him. He will be sent to Chicago or Springfield, 111. 
You must not take this misfortune of mine too much to heart; 
many others are in the same condition. Besides, I am happy to 
say that we have nothing to complain of in regard to the treat- 
ment. 

We are quartered in houses, with everything furnished us that 
we could ask for. Were it not for the fact that we are prisoners 
of war and confined to the camp, we would feel quite easy. \ 
make myself satisfied, and bear my imprisonment with as much 
patience as possible under the circumstances. All I fear at all is 
sickness. I hope and pray that we may be exchanged before 
the sickly season of the year. My health at present is very good, 
and all the mess, composed >of Captains Moss and Mather, are 
well. The greatest inconvenience I find is having no money that 
I can use. Confederate bonds are not used at all. I think I shall 
be home soon. Should any one come from Arkansas to bring us 
money, be sure to send me some gold. My sword, is still at the 
Washer House, Memphis. My trunk was left on a boat in the 
hands of Mr. McDonald. I presume he will send Conden to get 
my sword and trunk. Keep them until I am released. F suggest 
that you remain at father's until I get back ; but do as you think 
best. Kiss the children for me and tell them where I am. I will 
have plenty of money to meet any arrangement you make. Re- 
member me to all our friends and relations. When you write 
me, direct your letter to Capt. L. Logan, Prisoner of W'ar, Camp 
Chase, via Fortress Monroe. I send a stamp to pay postage this 
side of the line. 

Yours forever, J. L. Logan. 

List of Captain Logan's Company surrendered at Island No. 10 
April 8, 1863 : J. L. Logan, Captain ; F. T. Scott, E. C. Lockhart, 
1. K. Whitfield, G. W. Elleatt, I. T. Webb, W. F. Mack, E. H. 
AIcLaughtin, J. W. Granger, E. C. Alford, J. E. Basten, J. \\ . 
Bussell, FI. L. Brazil, Peter Connelly, C. A. Conine, G. W. Ca- 
they, J. A. Cogan, H. C. Davis, W. H. Water, J. A. Emerson, 
D. L. Davis, E. S. Greeney, E. A. Wane, E. B. Whitfield, E. C. 
Haddox, J. B. Halison, I. Wardin, W. Jackson, J. H. Lang. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 157 

J. E Side. L. O. Meyers, W. M. Mitchell, J. M. Malone, A. 
J. Mims, J. A. Price, A. H. Patton, R. R. Sheltoii, John Jones, 
Joe Schaeffer, T. I. Snllivant, J. Sloan, R. J. Turner, J. F. Todd, 
j. I. Todd. G. W. Taylor, A. M. Webb. 



Camp Chase, April 28, 1862. 

My Dear Parents: I wrote you the other day; but as Mrs. 
Moon [Note: The Mrs. Moon mentioned was Mrs. Clark, whose 
family name was Moon. — Author.] has kindly ofifered to take 
letters from prisoners to Virginia, I have taken the opportunity, 
hoping- you may hear from me again. I have written you so 
often, and not hearing from you, that it is almost enough to dis- 
courage one from writing; but, according to the old adage, "no 
news is good news." I will hope for the best. Mrs. Moon is a 
native of Virginia, and has a permit to visit there ; on what busi- 
ness, I cannot say. There are some ladies here that are very kind 
to us. Mrs. ]Moon, wife of a preacher, and Mrs. Thurman have 
visited the hospital that contains our sick and given comfort to 
our prisoners. 

There were sixteen who came when I did, and there are only 
four now. One of them, poor fello\v, I am afraid, will never 
be well again ; he has consumption. He was captured with a 
man named John Bruly, of Arkansas. The little boy that was 
with us we left at Bearly. Perhaps they will make a pet 
of him. Of the sixteen, four died and the rest have been sent 
home. They were all citizens except five, and one of them died. 
I haven't much to say except for you to remember me in your 
prayers, and, next to ourselves, to remember our country ; and 
may God bless you ! 

Yours forever, J. Hexney. 



Miss E. H. FusscU. 



Camp Chase, April 18, 1862. 



Dear Cousin : I write to let you know that I am still in the 
land of the living. I am enjoying fine health here. If I could 
just hear from home! Since the 15th of December I have not 
heard one word. I have written several letters, but it must be 
that they never got them. The mail facilities are very bad in tliis 
country now. 

Cousin, if you get any chance, please write to me. Tell ma I 
am in better health than ever I was in my life. Give my best 
respects to all inquiring friends, and accept for yourself the assur- 
ance that I am, as ever, your devoted cousin, W. W. Hughes. 

To Miss E. Fnssell, Columbia, Tenn. 



158 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
April 15, 1862. 

My Dear Father: The last time I wrote to sister I told her that 
in a few days we would be slaughtered or captured. My ex- 
pectations are fully realized. On the 8th we were surrendered 
and on the 13th placed in Prison No. 3, Camp Chase. I lost 
everything except the clothing on my body at the time of the 
surrender. The Feds have treated us very kindly, and I think 
will supply our wardrobes with at least a change of garments. 
They have been doing this. 

My money is worthless here, but I am very healthy and my 
spirits cheerful, as they should be. We have plenty of good food 
and comfortable cabins ; nothing to complain of except our con- 
finement. This is a matter of course. Tell Ollie not to grieve. 
I know her heart is bowed down with sorrow and she at times is 
very sad. She cannot come to me, or I would make application 
for it. Tell her to stay wherever she wishes. I have no idea 
how long we will remain here or be confined as prisoners. If 
you can do anything to get me out. I wish you would do so. 

The ofticer in charge of us is Colonel Moody, a preacher. Per- 
haps you know him. I wish to form his acquaintance, if he will 
permit. We will have preaching on Sunday. I will preach my- 
self, if they cannot be served better. My heart is right, my faith 
strong. My love to all. 

Yours, W. Rush. 

P. S. — April 19. I am suffering with a cold, but not much. 
]f you can make any arrangements to have me some money sent, 
1 will be a thousand times obliged, for really I have nothing. 
Only officers are here ; the privates all were sent to Chicago or to 
Springfield, 111. There are about eighteen hundred of us here. 
All wxll treated and in pretty good spirits. I wish we could get 
out and go home. 

May God bless you and mother and all ! My dear wife and 
children are in my thoughts all the time. God be merciful tf^ 
them! I enjoy thinking of you here. Pray for me. 

Yours. W, Rush. 



Camp Chase, Ohio, April 23, 1862. 
Colonel Trigg. 

Sir: Having learned .the object of your visit to this prison and 
the terms on which you think we prisoners of war can be released. 
I desire to say that, as Tennessee is my home, I am willing to 
return my loyalty to the State of Tennessee, and further I am not 
willing to do. These are the terms I am willing to abide by. 

Respectfully, William W. P>rickeen. 



AFTER FORTY-TIVG YEARS. 159 

Camp Chase, April 20, 1862. 

Dear Brother and Sister : I am well at the present time and 
just getting over the effects of my wound. I was sent from 
Clarksville March 20, thence to Cincinnati ; stayed in the hos- 
pital there until the i8th of April and then hrought to this place. 
There are about five acres inside the walls of this prison, and we 
are pretty comfortably fixed here, and yet I do not like it at all. 
I shall have to put up with it anyhow. 

I have received a letter from Sandford's folks. They are all 
well but Irene, and she is poorly. I send my love to you all and 
;'ll who may inquire. 

From your affectionate brother, J. P. Yates. 

Hope for better days. Kiss the children for me. 

[The letter did not give the regiment or the rank of the writer. 
It was addressed to D. A. Yates, Esq., New Orleans, La.] 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
April 21, 1862, 

Dear Wife: You have heard before this that our regiment, 
with others, was surrendered on the 8th of April as prisoners 
of war by General Mackall. The circumstances I can't give you. 
Suffice it to say, we were completely surrounded by overwhelm- 
ing numbers and forced, to succumb. The officers were brought 
here and the privates sent to Chicago and Springfield, 111. 

I have not seen Jim Niles since I left home. We have an 
abundance of everything and are kindly treated. I am not 
nearly so exposed as when in camp. May God Almighty shield 
and protect you from all harm and aid and comfort you in this 
dark hour ! I would write more, but I am limited. Kiss my 
dear boys and train them to love and remember their pa. God 
bless you and the children ! 

Yours ever, W. Smith. 

To Mrs. IV. E. Smith. Oaktuppa, Ala. 

Camp Chase, Columhus; Ohio, 

April 22, 1862. 
Mr. J. C. Durham. 

Dear Cousin : I drop you a few lines, but I don't know whether 
they will reach you or not. This leaves me in good health. I 
will write to my wife to-day, and will direct it to West Point; and 
if she is not there, I hope you will forward it to her. I am in 
prison four miles west of Columbus, Ohio. 

I cannot tell you when I will see you, but I hope I will some- 
time. I can't write much. Our food is very good, better than 
I expected. O, but we think this life is a hard one, and wc 
hope for better days. J. Z. Durham.- 

Mr. J. C. Durham, West Point, Ga. 



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Camp Chase, April 21, 1862. 

Dear Mother: My health is tolerably good at this time, but 
I have been very sick since I came here first, which was after Fort 
Donelson was taken. I guess I have got to stay here, for I see 
no chance of getting anywhere else. I hope the time will soon 
come when I may go home, but you need not look for me until 
you see me coming. We are treated much better than I expected. 
We have plenty to eat and good cabins to stay in. I send this 
by Mrs. Clark, who will take it to Richmond. 
' Yours until death, Uriah Gardner. 

To Mrs. Mary Gardner. Jackson. IVest Tennessee. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
March 20, 1862. 

Dear Mollie: You will doubtless be surprised to learn that I 
am in this region and in the confines of a prison. We were sur- 
rendered on the 8th instant at Island No. 10 by General Mackall, 
and not even a colonel had any intimation of it until it was an- 
nounced that we were surrendered as prisoners of war. 

I am happy to say, however, that we are well treated, and I 
hope we will be exchanged soon. I now have the painful neces- 
sity of informing you of the death of William D. Johnson, who 
died on the i6th instant of pneumonia and measles. I hope that 
you are all well at home, and that I may soon be permitted to 
visit you. I would write often, but it is very uncertain as to your 
receiving my letters. 

Aly respects to the friends and my love to you and the baby. 

Your husband. R. H. Riley. 

Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 
March 16. 1862. 

Dear Brother: I take pleasure in writing you a few lines to 
inform you that I am well at the present, and I hope that you 
and my dear family are well also. The health of the men here 
is not very good at this time. Captain Read and Lieutenant East 
died yesterday. Dave, I want you to see J. F. Gresham and get 
him to draw my money and pay it to you, and you can dispose of 
it as you see proper. 

We are very w^ell treated here by the enemy. I would like to 
see you all very much. I want you to write to G. A. Inders and 
have my trunk sent home. I am in hope I will be released soon 
and sent home. You wiM read this to my family and tell them 
to weep not for me, for I am game. The same Hand that led me 
through dark scenes will lead me home. 

I remain your brother, W. P. Pardier. 

[No envelope inclosed this letter.] 
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1 62 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Mention is made in the introduction of tliis chapter that only 
a portion of the letters found would be used. After the letter 
from W. Meikle, of Dobbs Ferry, New York, was in type a few 
more letters were found, and one of them gave the information 
■desired about "Robby." The following letter from St. Cath- 
arines, Canada, mentioning Mr. Meikle, shows that he was Mr. 
Robert Beers, supposed to be in prison at Camp Chase, but the 
envelope contains a notation of the fact that Mr. Beers was not 
at Camp Chase, and was signed by Tiffany, an officer having 
charge of Confederate mail. 

Mr. Robert Beers. ^x. Catharines, June 30, 1862. 

My Dear Friend: I write a few lines and will wait to see 
whether you get them before I write much to you, I have had 
some intimation that you were at Camp Chase, and so I direct 
there. 

Myself and family are here in Canada. I wish we could see 
you, for your mother's sake, as well as your own. She was well, 
as usual. So were your father and other friends. They know 
that you were wounded and that you were in the hospital when 
it fell into the hands of the Union troops, so that they judge you 
are a prisoner. Still, they are very anxious lest your wound 
might prove fatal. Your poor mother, however, bears all with 
fortitude. I have heard from Eddie Treat, and. have notified Mr. 
St. John, who is in New York, of his whereabouts, and he has 
sent Eddie money. 

We were at Mr. Meikle's house and stayed all night. I told 
them all I knew of you at that time, and Mr. Meikle immediately 
set about searching by correspondence for you. As soon as I 
heard you were at Camp Chase I sent him word. You must let 
him and me both know how you are and what you need to make 
you comfortable. 

I have written to a minister of my acquaintance in Columbus, 
and requested him as a special favor to give you some attention. 
Tell Mr. Plum that his mother has been quite sick, but is again 
well, and that his sister is also well. They were both very anxious 
about him, as they had heard he was wounded. 

I was compelled to stop preaching for a while on account of ill- 
ness, so I started for Europe via Havana. Our vessel was captured 
and we were brought to New York, where we were at liberty 
to go where we wished. We came here, and I may not go to 
Europe. We have to return to Mobile in a few months, so that 
I may resume my labors. 

There were fifty-eight additions to our Church last year. Be 
of good cheer. God bless you and your companions ! 

Your affectionate friend and pastor, J. W. Burgett. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 163 

Camp Chase^ Columbus, Ohio, 
April 20, 1862. 

Dearest Mother : God has willed it that I be far from all my 
near relations and dear friends, but it is his desire. I will bear 
it cheerfully, thinking of the poor men here suffering. I have 
only God to thank that I am well and strong, and I do thank him 
^vith all my heart. I often think of your affection and kind and 
gentle care. Since my confinement I have been somewhat blue, 
but now, thanks be to God, I am over it. Tell pa to use all his 
influence to have me again restored to you. Give my love to him 
and all the family, and embrace them, one and all, for me. 

Write to me often, as that will be one of my greatest consola- 
tions. You can easily do so on a flag of truce. I send this by 
a noble Southern lad}', who has done all in her power to relieve 
our suffering as much as she can. 

"S^our son, John Z. Guthrie. . 

Mrs. John Z. Guthrie, care of IV. 0. Greenlozv, Esq., Memphis, 
Teiiii. 

Camp Chase, April 21, 1862. 
David Bradley. 

Dear Sir : I desire to inform you that I am a prisoner of war 
at Camp Chase, Ohio. We are in tolerably good health. I would 
like to see you all very much, but I can't get home just now. I 
wrote several letters to you all, but have received no answers, and 
I want to hear very much. Tell John I would like co hear from 
him. Tell Aunt Sarah howdy, also, and say that I am all right. 

Show this letter to ail who desire to see it, and tell Ad I want 
to see him too. Tell old Mrs. Davis that I heard from Frank 
a short time ago. Tell Capt. D. P. Curry to have us four ex- 
changed. I have been here since last September, and am getting 
tired of staying in this place. He can have us exchanged if he 
Avill. Henry Whitman is here, and John McCutchen and Hugh 
IvIcTuanns. 

When you write don't put in an}thing contraband, for our let- 
ters are all opened before we get them. Tell old Mr. Ebberd that 
1 wrote to Ben Ventrick, but have not heard from him. I must 
close by saying: God be with you all. It is the sincere prayer 
of your nephew, John W. Thompson, 

Rock Creek Guards, Tzvoity-Fifth J 'a. Regt. 

"When this you see, remember me. 
Though many miles apart we be." 

Tell all the girls howdy for me. 

To Mr. Daiid Bradley, Goshen Bridge, Rockbridge Co., Va. 



164 ' THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Camp Chase, April 15, 1862. 

My Dear Friend Allison : We were captured December 5., 
1861, and taken to Calhoun, where we stayed three weeks, and 
while there my mother and several of my fellow-townsmen came 
to see me. We were kept there longer than necessary, expecting" 
every day to be exchanged ; but no offer being made by the South, 
Vv'e were sent to Louisville and there lodged in the military prison, 
v,'here we had comfortable quarters and were kindly treated. 
Friends and relations were allowed to visit us twice a week, and 
they came in crowds, bringing clothes, tobacco, and everything 
we needed. I made the acquaintance of several fine young ladies 
while at Louisville. 

We left Louisville March 21 and arrived here the next morning, 
where we are safely housed in an inclosure, with four rows of 
comfortable cabins extending from one end of the prison to the 
other. We draw ample rations and cook for ourselves, each 
cabin being supplied wth a cooking stove and all necessary uten- 
sils ; so you see we are as well situated as prisoners could expect, 
my company being Capt. Charles R. Biller and Lieutenants Wick- 
lefife and Hanis. We have been waiting through all the long 
months of our imprisonment for an exchange, but alas ! we have 
looked in vain. Our desponding hearts have been many times 
cheered by the rumor of a speedy exchange, but as many times 
sorely disappointed. Jim Watthal is well. 

Your friend, J. B. Hall. 

To Allison G. Hall; no address. 

Camp Chase, Prison No. 3, Mess 2. 
April 20, 1862. 

Dear Brother: I am in good health. There are fifteen in a 
mess. All well with the exception of Capt. J. Smith, of Morgan 
County. I have had the mumps. I was vaccinated, and it has 
taken good efifect. We have had since the first of this month four 
cases of smallpox. There is one case in this prison at this time, 
but none have died as yet with the disease. There were several 
deaths since the ist of March. Dr. Houston is the only one of 
r.jy acquaintances here. I get letters from the other boys at 
Camp Douglas. They all have been sick; two have died — A. J. 
Braden, on the i8th of March, and Green Harber, on the 5th of 
this month. The boys say they' are all very well treated, but 
anxious to get home. Robert Clarke and Wren both aredoin^ 
pretty well. All of us are guarding against smallpox. I have 
made several requests for clothing. It looks favorable for me 
now. 

I remain, P. Porter, Prisoner of War. 

Gallatin, Ky. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 165 

Camp Chase, Near Columbus, Ohio, 
April 18, 1862. 

Dear Captain : Our second campaign has been a very unfor- 
tunate one, and the First Alabama is now in durance — prisoners 
of war. Our accommodations and fare are far better than any 
of us expected. The privates have been sent to Springfield or 
Chicago. We officers, including Major Know, are rusticating 
at this place. I have written to my parents, but have received 
no reply. 

When we abandoned Island No. 10 we lost all our clothing and 
comforts. We are now realizing the truths of the expression : In 
a strange land, without money, "duds," and almost minus friends. 
We neither fear pickpockets, shoplifters, nor are we in dread 
of "false alarms." My space is limited and ideas cramped; so I 
Avill conclude. 

Your sincere friend, S. B. Moore. 

My address is : Lieut. S. B. Moore, Camp Chase, Prison No. 3, 
Columbus, Ohio. 

Camp Chase Prison, 
Columbus, Ohio, April 20, 1862. 

My Dear Bettie: Nine weeks have elapsed to-day since I, 
with my regiment, was surrendered at Fort Donelson. I have 
as yet received no news from home, but I hope you Jiave at least 
received some of my letters written since my capture. A kind 
lady of this State, Mrs. Clark, has obtained permission to visit 
Richmond, and very kindly offers to carry our letters beyond the 
lines and mail them. There is at least a possibility of this reach- 
ing you. I hope, however, ere this that some one of the fugitives 
from out the regiment who escaped has informed you of my safe- 
ty. My health thus far has been unusually good, and bids fair, 
through the regularity of all my habits, to continue so. How 
much longer I am to remain a prisoner depends upon so many 
contingencies that it is impossible to conjecture. Major Brown 
vvas paroled several days since to^ Richmond, to effect, if possible, 
his exchange for me. Whether he has been successful, I have 
not learned. Immediately after our surrender we were taken to 
Chicago, and there the officers were separated from the men, the 
men remaining there and the officers brought to this place. 

On last Thursday the other officers of my regiment, with one 
exception, were taken to a prison on an island in Lake Erie, 
where they report they are more comfortably quartered than 
here. Lieutenants Siddile, Jefif, Monroe, and Stoddard are there. 
Some two da3's since, Captain George was removed from here. 

Your brother, F. B. Keyes. 

To Miss Anna Keycs. 



i66 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Camp Chase, A])ril 20, 1862. 

My Dearest Wife : I have written to you several times since 
I have been in prison at this place ; but, owing to the difficulty o£ 
my letters passing the Federal lines, I send this by a lady who will 
leave for Richmond in a day or two. My health has improved. 
I was confined in the hospital for some time after my arrival here,, 
but, with the help of God, I now feel quite well. I am in a cabin 
that at least keeps me dry. We draw plenty of rations of flour,, 
meal, bacon, beef, sugar, cofliee, tea, candles, soap, vinegar, salt,, 
potatoes, and hominy. In addition to this, we buy butter, eggs^ 
and molasses, or anything else we prefer. We are now paying 
twenty cents a pound for butter and seven cents a dozen for eggs. 
V/e still have Giles to cook for us. In a word, we want nothing 
but liberty to be doing better than soldiers in the field possibly can. 

We have bought useful books and pass the time reading, jump- 
ing, foot-racing, etc. Indeed, I have but one thing to disturb me, 
and that is your welfare. If I were assured of that, I should 
be content. I find my Bible, that you were thoughtful enough 
to put up for me, of great use and comfort. 

The officers in charge of this prison have been generally kind 
to us. There are about six hundred prisoners here now, mostly 
officers. Poore and Menly are here. Poore was shot through 
the hip with a Minie ball, but has entirely recovered. John Morris 

and Pleasants have been released on parole through United 

States Attorney General Bates. They both live near the court- 
house ; and if you see them, you can get all the particulars. 

The officers and men are all indignant at the surrender at Fort 
Donelson. Do the best you can, and sell everything on the farm 
if you cannot collect the money due me. My love to Bessie and 
Billy. Kiss Dig for me. 

Affectionately yours. John Tatj-EV. 

To Mrs. Dollie A Tallev, Biila. Va. 



Camp Chase, April 24. 1862. 

Dear Pa : It snow^ed here this morning, and it is pretty cold 
to-day. I have been tolerably sick. I was in the hospital six 
weeks ; but, by the goodness of God, I was spared. Pleas Dodson 
waited on me like a brother. I am going to Sandusky to-morrow 
or the next day. We will have better quarters and a healthier 
situation. Pa, I want to write a long letter, but I am limited. 
1 will write that I am well now and doing well under the present 
circumstances. Jimmy Cotheral is dead : died, in Chicago about 
the middle of March. Love to all. 

Your son, J. A. Cox. 

P. S. — I send you $1.50 by Mr. Ross, from F. D. 



AFTER FORTY -TWO YEARS. 167 

Camp Chase^ April 20, 1862. 

My Dear Mother: An opportunity having offered itself by 
which I can get a letter through the line, I will embrace it to drop 
you a few lines. As doubtless you are aware, I am a prisoner 
of war at Camp Chase. We arrived here from Fort Donelson on 
the 4th of March. On arrival we were put in a prison of about 
three acres, surrounded by a fence fifteen feet high. Within the 
inclosure are enough houses to entertain twelve or fifteen per- 
sons, who constitute a mess. 

The houses are comfortably built, and the streets are regularly 
laid off'. Rations are given to us just the same as to their own 
soldiers, perhaps a little better. With rations and what delicacies 
we buy, we live in fine style. 

My mess are all Virginians, mostly from the lower part of the 
State. Most of them, having friends in the North, get money 
enough to do very well. I wrote to Uncle Albert Brown, but 
have not heard from him. Why, I cannot say. Perhaps I was 
mistaken in his address. If you can get a letter through the line, 
let me know his office. 

The authorities are very kind, and tr\- to make us comfortable. 
1 am limited as to how much I write. I am in fine health now, 
but was quite unwell after I was captured. 

With love to all, I am yours, William O. Coleman. 

Camp Chase, April 2q, 1862. 
Mrs. Lydia Pannclcc, Winona, Miss. 

Dear Wife : I have no news to write you, only that I am a 
prisoner of war at Camp Chase, as you will see from the caption, 
and that I am in fine health and well cared for. Have plenty to 
eat; all the prisoners can ask for but liberty. All the Fourth Mis- 
sissippi Regiment officers and privates are well and in good health. 
W. O. Thomson, M. Stafford, and R. E. Curtis have died. 

Wife, be of good cheer; kiss all the babies and tell them pa 
is well and, thinks of them every day. Tell all my relations and 
friends "howdy." Tell James to stay at home and take care of 
the family. 

I am your affectionate husband, W. J. Parmelee. 

Write me if you can, and direct, as above, to Prison No. 2,. 
Mess No. 13. 

I omitted to say that \N . F. Webb and Tommy Ratliff" were- 
killed on the battlefield ; and I and our regiment are being sent 
to Sandusky, Johnson Island, in Lake Erie; so direct all your 
letters there. 

Tell James to write. i 

Sandusky, Johnson's Island. Ohio. 



i68 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Camp Chase, April 21, 1862. 
R. W. Price, Esq. 

My Dear Friend: I, for my first time, have an opportunity 
of writing you since becoming a citizen of Ohio. Last February 
I removed from Bowling Green, Ky., to Fort Donelson, Tenn., 
arriving there on the loth, and on the 15th something like a 
fight occurred, accounts of which you have seen. The number 
of the enemy is unknown; that of ours, 13,890; our killed, 209; 
wounded, 965. 

Sunday morning, February 16, the whole Confederate force 
were sold to General Grant by a man named Gideon Pillow. He 
sold us, skulked off to Nashville before daylight, and left his 
men to suffer the consequences. As the result I am here with a 
X^ortion of our regiment, as a prisoner of war; but I am proud 
to inform you that my health is good, and we live just as well as 
we wish, each mess having a nice little house, with a good cook- 
ing stove in it. Part of our regiment is at Indianapolis and a 
portion at Fort Warren and some of us here. The health of the 
prisoners is generally good. Captain Reed and Lieutenant Rast 
are dead. Captains Sharp and Demo are both here, as lively as 
ever. I would like very much to be at home and know who of 
our friends suffered at the battle of Shiloh. We are all hoping 
to get home soon, but God only knows when that time will come. 
If you can get any money for my wife, do so. I am allowed to 
write only one page, so I must close. Send this to my wife at 
Burnsville. 

Believe me forever your friend, Geo. W. Smith. 

Written to R. JJ\ Price, Eastport, Tishomingo County, Miss. 

The letter from George W. Smith to R. W'. Price mentions 
the death of Captain Reed and Lieutenant Rast, but there is no 
record of their burial at Columbus, either in the Camp Chase 
Cemetery or the earlier one, where a number were laid to rest in 
what was called the City Cemetery. The only name found among 
the list of the dead mentioned in any of the letters was Lieut. 
John F. Allen, of the First Alabama. 



Camp Chase, April 20, 1862. 

My Dear Wife : I take this opportunity of writing to you. I 
am well and doing very well. After we left Somerset, we were 
taken to Louisville, Ky., and stayed there four or five weeks, and 
then brought to this place, which is near Columbus, Ohio. I am 
well treated and comfortably situated. Tell father and mother 
where I am. and not to be uneasy about me, for I am well and 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 169 

perfectly safe. I don't know when I shall be at home, but shall 
come as soon as I can. 

You must keep a good heart and not be troubled about me any 
more. Kiss our dear little ones for me, and do the best you can 
ior them. You need not answer this ; don't think it would reach 
me. Good-by, dear wife. 

Yours ever. I. J. Lowe, Twenty-Ninth Tout. J'ol. 

From a prisoner of zvar to Mrs. Martha A. Loivc, Midway De- 
pot, Greene County, Tenn. 



Camp Chase, Columbus^ Ohio, 
April 21, 1862. 

Affectionate Companion and Little Children and Moth- 
er : I drop you these lines to let you know that I am in tolerably 
good health, and hope this will find you all well. I am enjoying 
myself as well as the nature of the case will permit. 

We have plenty to eat and ground enough to exercise. We are 
all well treated by the Federal officers and men. L. B. Martin 
and our men are at Camp Douglas. I got a letter from there 
three days ago stating that B. had been sick weeks, but was 
thought to be mending. John Martin is dead ; he died on March 
I. W. C. Brandon and James Logan died at St. Louis about 
March 10. We left Captain Davis at St. Louis sick. I heard 
a few days ago that he would join us in a few days. 

John Evans and myself are all that are here from our com- 
pany. I have no knowledge of when I will get home ; but if not 
before, we will have a chance at the end of the war. So do the 
best you can. and I will do the same. 

I am all right. ' Sebern Phillips. 

P. S. Phillips. 

Camp Chase, Prison No. 3, 
Near Columbus, Ohio. 

Dear Parents : I have been desirous of writing you some time. 
and now avail myself of the first opportunity offered me since 
arriving here. I was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson. I heard 
through John Walker from Moss Craddock. They were taken 
at Island No. 10. 

My health is remarkably good, and I am very pleasantly sit- 
uated, taking into consideration that I am a prisoner of war. I 
trust this will find you both well. 

Your son, James Griffin. ' 



170 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

State of Tennessee, Mickman Co.;, 
May I, 1862. 

Dear Husband : I write you a few lines to find out whether 
you are dead or ahve. I want you to take good care of yourself^ 
and do not be uneasy about me ; I will do the best I can. 

I am trying to have a crop made. I wish I could send you 
some money and clothes. I am waiting with patience for you to 
come home, thinking about the time when we will meet. I'd 
rather you were there than to be here fighting against the Union. 
The prisoner who was pressed when you were is in Mississippi. 

I wanted our Union to stand, for I lived happily then and see 
no pleasure now. I want you to write to me. Direct your letters 
to Nashville, for I can get them there. I send my love and best 
respect to you and all the Hickman boys. If Wilson Overley is 
dead, please some of you write to me, and all about his sickness. 
I will say no more Banckey 0\'erlev. 

To Wihon Overley. 

CoLUMBTx, Tenn., A^Iay 4, 1862. 

Dear George: I have just written a letter to my brother, 
Eugene, and concluded to inclose a short one to you. Mr. Pease 
had service to-day, the first time for weeks ; delivered a good 
sermon and read a portion of the morning service. There is 
quite a change in the people since you left a few days since. 
Three prominent gentlemen of Columbia presented a Union flag 
to the troops here. It was presented by Messrs. Chesly Benum, 
Charles Crawford, and Jerome Wilson. The latter, you remem- 
ber, married Miss Hailey. The flag is now waving over the 
courthouse. 

Colonel Branch and your Uncle Jerome left a day or so since 
for Arkansas. Pa has been in Mississippi ever since the fall of 
Fort Donelson. having left mother and myself here alone. We 
are completely surrounded by tents, but have not been molested. 
We have nothing to complain of, but much to be thankful for. 
'j'he Provost Marshal, Captain Green, came out to see our sick 
soldiers of Colonel's cavalry ; treated us very kindly, request- 
ing us to keep him until his health was restored ; when he took 
the oath of honor, got a pass and left. We were very grateful 
for his kindness, as he might have made it a very distressing visit 
to us. 

I see your ma often ; she is quite well and cheerful ; gave me a 
very valuable part of your property, "Rip." He was so firm in 
his affections for his home I could not get him home with me. 
jimmy Johnson died of consumption a few days since. William 
Witral's remains were brought home. Mr. Lee is married to 
Miss Branch, of Nashville. No one from this place was killed 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. lyi 

in the battle at Shiloh, but one man in the First Tennessee Regi- 
ment was killed — F. Cox, the paroled prisoner from this place^ 
who returned. Eddy Saunders is well and safe. I understand 
your Uncle Gis's place has not been disturbed. It is a pity his 
family did not remain at home. I saw a young lady in an open 
carriage ; she was so completely veiled I could, not see her coun- 
tenance, therefore could not judge if her heart was imprisoned. 
j\Iajor Price is walking the streets, looking, as usual, quite 
consequential, taking many things on himself which would be 
much more becoming to leave undone. Mr. J. H. Thomas has 
returned home with permission from Governor Johnson to remain 
unmolested. 

I am sorry I have not more to write that will interest you. Let 
me hear from you soon. Mother joins me in much love to you. 

Yours affectionately, M. R. Lyke. 

This letter was without envelope or further address than what 
appears in the communication. 



West Point, Ky., May 26, 1862. 
Brother Rogers. 

Dear Sir: I arrived in Louisville yesterday morning just one 
hour after you left, with an order from General Dufifield for your 
release. When I first heard of your arrest and learned of the 
cause, I had no doubt but what you would have a trial and be 
acquitted,, and thought but little of it until Saturday night about 
nine o'clock, when I heard of your sentence to Camp Chase. 

Sunday morning I went to work to get up evidence to secure 
your release, and started to Louisville about ten o'clock Monday 
morning with the testimony. I found General Dutfield at Dr. 
George Syms's, and when he read it promptly made out an order 
for your release; but, as before stated, I was one hour too late 
in getting to Louisville. 

General Duffield told me last night he would have you brought 
back to Louisville, which I think he will do. I learn since, how- 
ever, that there is some doubt as to his jurisdiction. Yet he stated 
to me, as well as in the order for your release, that you had 
been wrongfully imprisoned. You may expect to hear from 
me again soon. All your Union friends responded readily with 
me in the effort to secure your release. We are all well. 

Yours trulv, D. C. Fu.sev. 



OwENTON, May 30. 1862. 

My Dear Husband : I received your kind letter ; and knowing 
vou are as anxious to hear from home as T was from you, T 



172 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

hasten to answer it. I should have written before, only I ex- 
pected you home every day, being assured by the Union men 
of Owenton that you would be released, and not dreaming that 
3^ou had gone farther from me. When, O when ! will I see you ? 
It appears like two months, instead of two weeks, had gone. I 
was so glad to hear you were well. The children are all well. 
Minnie says tell her papa she wants him to come home. Frank 
was asleep when you left, and slept until next morning. When 
lie awoke and found you had gone, the tears rolled down his 
cheeks, which made me feel more than ever I had lost my best 
friend on earth — but only for a little while, I hope. It will 
surely be the happiest day of my life when we meet again. God 
grant it may not be long ! You were uneasy when you left for 
fear the children would catch the sore throat from Mrs. Foster, 
but they have had no sign of it as yet. Mollie Foster died the 
same evening you left, and they carried her to Grenup on Sun- 
day, and none "of the family have as yet returned, owing to 
several of the other children having taken the same disease. 
Minnie and Willie have been to school every day. Minnie is 
delighted. I had to make her go the first day, but she is up and 
ready long before Willie. Mr. Snale has been here and looked 
over your executions, and says he will see them returned and all 
fixed up right. I have not seen Mr. .Murdoff but once — a few 
minutes. Your notes and papers of all kinds I will take good 
care of. Daisy was here yesterday, and I sent your horse to 
father's by her. Father has been here once and stayed all night. 
.He wanted me to go home with him, but I thought I had better 
stay at home and keep the children in school every day and 
attend to my garden, which looks very well. My cabbage plants 
that I set out before the first rain are looking very well, and I 
will have peas in a few days. If you were only here, every- 
thing would look bright and beautiful. Everybody around me 
has been as kind and good to me since you left as they could 
be. Baby is here now, laughing and trying his best to talk. 
Ben, you must send a name for him, and write me what to do 
and how to manage to get along, for I don't know where to 
begin. I will do the best I can for the children, and still hope 
it will not be long before I see you. If you need money or any- 
thing else, let me know, and I will find a way to get it to you. 
It is not necessary for me to write anything of your friends" 
families, as I believe they are all writing by this mail. Your 
friends all send their kind regards to you. Ben, I wish I could 
tind a way to get you out of that dangerous place. Your friends 
say they have done everything they could for yod, for which I 
thank them from my heart, but if they could only have brought 
you back with them ! Ben, take good care of yourself and don't 
forget your Mattie. 



AFTER FORTY -TWO YEARS. 173 

May 30, 1862. 

My Dear Father: I have just returned from Owenton, and 
left ma and all the family as well as you could expect under the 
circumstances. Ma suffers more in mind about you than if you 
were already dead, as she would know that you were beyond 
suffering; but now she doesn't know how much you will suffer, 
and she can't do anything for you. This is the time to try 
men's souls. We have found many friends good and kind in 
places where we least expected them. There is not a man in 
■ who will not do all in his power to have you all re- 
leased. Some of the Union men will go to Washington if they 
cannot accomplish it without it. You must try to be cheerful 
and hopeful ; and don't give up. for it operates against your 
health. 

The women dread your getting sick. Tell your fellow-prison- 
ers their families are hoping for the best. Trust in God, and he 
will never forsake you. 

Willie will stay with ma, which necessity, I hope, will not be 
long. A-Ia will write you soon, but she feels that she cannot 
do so for a few days, and that is why I have written first, feeling 
that that is my privilege, as I am your eldest, your firstborn. 

Your loving Jane. 

[Address not given.] 

LixMEStone County, Ala., June 10. 1862. 

My Dear Husband: I take the present opportunity of writing 
vou a few lines to let you know that we are all well and doing 
very well, and I hope that when this reaches you you will be en- 
joying the same blessing. 

Dear Jim, I am anxious to hear from you. I heard that you 
were wounded and taken prisoner at Corinth, Miss. Please write 
to me and let me know whether I can come and see you, for I do 
v.'ant to do so. When you write let me know whether you know 
anything about my brother Andrew and Hart Manley or not. 

Direct your letter to Athens, Limestone County, Ala. Pa's 
family are all well. I bring my letter to a close by sending my 
love to you and saying. Write soon to your wife. The little chil- 
dren grow very fast and want to see you. 

Martha L. Chapman to James H. Chapman, Breckinridge's 
Brigade, Colonel Hole's Regiment, Captain Card's Company. 

If any person who reads this letter knows of Mr. Chapman, I 
will be thankful for information. 

The cemetery records show that J. L. Chapman (not J. H.) 
died in August, 1865, and was buried in Grave 1332. 



174 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

A portion of a long letter written by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Harris 
is given because of its homelike gossip and news. The letter 
was without envelope or address and no town is mentioned that 
gives a clue to where it was from. The mention of Louisville 
indicates that it is not far from there. The hemp mentioned sug- 
gests the vicinity of Lexington, Ky. The husband was not at 
Camp Chase at the time, or the message would doubtless have 
found him. 

Sunday Morning, June 29, 1862. 

My Dear Husband: We received yours of the 20th and were 
glad to hear from you, and so gratified to learn that you had been 
in good health and that you had received the box we sent. The 
old Bourbon was sent by your old friend, William Guiton, and 
ijie wine by B. Patterson, except one bottle, which was Susan's 
nice grape wine. We did not know it was contrary to the rules 
of your prison, or we would not have sent it. I thought you 
would need it if you got sick. No one put anything in the box 
but Jennie and myself to eat, except Mr. Patterson, who put in a 
few things, Mrs. Cardwell sent Jimmie a box the first of last 
month, which he has probably received before this. 

Your friends think there is a prospect for you to get out and 
•come home. If not, we will send you another box. Mr, Cook 
has just returned from Louisville, and says he had a long talk 
with J. Bogle, who felt certain you would be released very soon. 

Fred told me to say that the crops are looking very well. His 
hemp is first-rate and the corn growing finely. He has plowed 
the big field three times. A part of the corn at Theodore Davis's 
is waist-high. The corn in the big field on the far side of the 
branch does not look so well. He has been cutting the small 
grain for three or four days, and has most of Davis's wheat cut. 
He cuts it with a cradle ; he could not get a machine. 

Sunday Night. — T did not finish my letter this morning. I 
liave had company all day. Mr. Levi Walters came out to see 
me to-day. Mr. Cook, Mr. Sam Miller, Mrs. Grant, and Nannie 
Cook came up this evening and stayed until after supper. George 
Tomkins and wife and Mrs. A. Warden were here awhile to-day ; 
also Mrs. Taylor. Saw Jimmie yesterday. He thought he would 
get home certain this week. If you do not, I shall be sadly dis- 
appointed. Do not hesitate a moment in taking the oath, or do 
anything they request that would not be dishonorable. You do 
not know how bad I want you here. The anxietv and uneasiness 
about you have nearly worn me out. We have a fine crop of rasp- 
berries and have a great many vegetables of every kind. The 
children wish every day that papa was here to eat raspberries. I 
do hope you will be home this week. 

Your affectionate wife. Elizabeth Harris. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS 175 

On April 21, 1862, Lieutenant Menefee wrote to Mrs. John 
F. Allen (address not given) that her husband, Lieutenant Allen, 
had been ill with typhoid fever, but was recovering. "Your next 
letter will be from him," the Lieutenant wrote, "as he is now- 
getting along nicely." 

The letter was a brief one ; and had it gone upon its way, it 
would have cheered a lonely, aching heart in far-off Alabama. 
The cheering letter was written on the 21st of April, and the 
record shows that he was buried on May 24. 

The foregoing letters were loaned by Mr. Galbraith, that 
copies might be made, in the latter part of July, 1904. From that 
time until October diligent effort was made to locate the Mrs. 
Clark mentioned. 

Through the kind assistance of Mrs. i\L \^ Randolph, of Rich- 
mond, \*a., Miss Virginia Moon, a sister of Mrs. Clark, of Mem- 
phis, was found, who related so much of the history of her sister 
ill those days as she recalled, and gave the address of Rev. Frank 
Pinckney Clark, of Front Royal, Va., son of Mrs. Charlotte Moon 
Clark ; and this letter given below tells as nearly as ever will be 
known, perhaps, the story of the letters never delivered : 

I was only a child of eight years when the Civil War began, so 
my recollections are vague, as are often the remembrances of 
boyhood. But I was afterwards told of many of the events of 
those days and the effect they had upon our after life. 

At that time my father, Judge James Clark, lived at Hamilton, 
Ohio, where he began the practice of his profession after his 
graduation from the law school at Cincinnati. He soon became 
prominent in the legal world and was appointed Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas by the Governor of Ohio about the 
year 1852. 

He was afterwards elected judge by the people of his judicial 
district at least twice, and then retired from the bench to prac- 
tice law. 

In politics he was a friend of Judge Thurman and Messrs. 
\'allandigham and Voorhees and others, and took an active part 
in the campaign of Stephen A. Douglas. 

My mother's father, Robert S. Moon, went from Virginia to 
Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, back in the thirties. He was a 
iirm believer in the teachings of Thomas Jefferson, both belonging 
to the same county — Albemarle — in Virginia. Among other of 
his political ideas was that of the ultimate emancipation of slaves 
by their oivncrs. He took his own to Ohio and then to Indiana 
and freed them, going security for their future good behavior ; 





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AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 177 

and I have been told that he had to pay quite a large sum for the 
misconduct of some of them. 

It was at Oxford my father met my mother. He was a student 
at Miami University, and she was attending a young ladies' school 
taught by Dr. Scott, whose daughter, the late Mrs. Benjamin 
Harrison, was one of my mother's schoolmates. 

My parents were married in 1849, and the interval until i860 
was passed quietly in Hamilton. My mother's three brothers 
were in the Confederate Army, two of them being Virginians 
by birth. 

After the fall of Fort Donelson my mother heard that one of 
her brothers was at Camp Chase. She at once went to Columbus, 
and Governor Tod gave her permission to go through the Camp 
to find her brother, although there was no record of his being 
there. He was not there ; but she found many friends and ac- 
quaintances who were in the prison camp. At once my mother 
began a crusade to make these prisoners as comfortable as possi- 
ble; even succeeded in getting Governor Tod to parole some of 
them in the city of Columbus, where they were able to secure 
comfortable quarters. In this connection, I have been told of a 
reception given the paroled prisoners at Judge Thurman's house, 
and that when the Judge got home he found his house full of 
men in Confederate uniforms, with only one bluecoated gentle- 
man present, an officer named Hunter, who had been exceed- 
ingly kind to the prisoners and was very popular with them. 

My mother undertook to inform the relatives of some of the 
prisoners of their health, condition, needs, etc., and both wrote 
herself and carried some of their letters to friends in Kentucky. 
This brought about a sudden catastrophe for two clergymen who 
were at our house when my mother returned from one of these 
trips to Kentucky, where she had given letters to one of General 
Morgan's brothers, and where she came near being caught and 
arrested by one Colonel Metcalf. These ministers wrote home 
to their wives how Mrs. Clark had evaded every attempt to stop 
her and made her way into the forbidden neighborhood of the 
Morgans. Unfortunately, these ministers were arrested in Cin- 
cinnati and searched. 

The same night a telegram from Mr. John Bond, of Cincinnati,, 
warned my mother, and she left on the midnight Northern express 
for Niagara, taking me with her. We crossed the suspension 
bridge only a short time before a telegram to arrest my mother 
arrived on the New York side. 

This will probably account for the package of letters being 

delayed so many years in Columbus. If they were written while 

my mother was getting ready for that Kentucky trip, and kept 

for her return to Columbus, she never heard anything of them, 

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178 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

for soon afterwards she returned to Ohio to make some final ar- 
rangements to go South. She was threatened with arrest by- 
General Rosecrans ; but General Burnside, then in Cincinnati, 
arrested my mother, aunt, and grandmother, and after detaining 
them a short time, sent them South. I understand that General 
Burnside, who was an old friend, took them thus under his pro- 
tection to save them from prison. 

My mother remained in the South until after the war was over, 
when my father settled in New York to practice law and my 
mother began a literary career, which brought increased luster 
upon her name both in this country and abroad. In the autumn 
of 1895 she left this life for the greater, at my home, the rectory 
of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, West Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

In "The Modern Hagar" my mother gave a graphic account 
of the 1856 convention held in Cincinnati, which Mr. Charles 
Anderson, brother of Gen. Robert x'Vnderson, esteemed one of 
the best pieces of writing with which he was acquainted. My 
mother's full name was Mrs. Charlotte Moon Clark, and her 
nom de plume was Charles M. Clay, she being a descendant of 
the Clays on her mother's side, and of the Moons and one of 
the first colonial governors of Virginia, Thomas Digges, on her 
father's side. 

Besides corresponding for Southern and Philadelphia journals 
when abroad in the -seventies, she did much journalistic work at 
home, after her return to New York, and wrote the following 
novels : "Baby Rue," published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 
"The Modern Hagar," published by the same house, and "How 
She Came into Her Kingdom," published by Jansen, McClurg 
& Company, Chicago. By such critics as George Gary Eggleston 
"The Modern Hagar" was esteemed as a great book. 

Very respectfully yours, Frank Pinckney Clark. 

Front Royal, ]\i. 

Mr. Clark's letter has been used, believing the story of his 
mother's work for the South more interesting, as related by him- 
self, than any story that might be written with the letter as 
foundation. 

The letters and the story of how they were so long hidden 
from sight we have given so far as it can be learned. 

The following is a list of letters not previously mentioned : 

8. April 21, from John S. Stewart, Camp Chase, to wife, Sarah Stewart. 

No address. 
25. April 20, from James A. Cox, 14th Miss., to Mrs. Addie Cox, Siloam, 
- Miss. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 179 

43. April 21, from Lieut. Keyes, 20th Miss. Vols., to Hon. O. R. Single- 
ton, House of Representatives, Richmond, Va. 

88. April 21, from Lieut. John R. Farrabee, Camp Chase, to Joseph 

Maples, Memphis, Tenn. 

89. April 20, from Lieut. W. Osbourne, to ^Ir. ]\L Osbourne, Little Rock, 

Ark. 

117. April 14, from Aunt C. C. H. to her nephew. No envelope or address. 

118. April 20, from \V. A. H. Shackelford, Camp Chase, to F. Shackelford. 

No address. 

119. April 20, from R. M. Walker, to ]\Irs. S. S. Walker, Palestine, 

Ark. 

120. April 30, from H. M. Hallan, Camp Chase, to Jerry Hallan, Banks- 

ton, Miss. 

121. April 30, from Henry H. Hart, Colesborough, to William Harned 

or Adkin Harned, Camp Chase. 

123. March 24, from Nathan D. Cross, Nashville, to Connolly T. Figg. 

No address. 

124. April 20, from Charlotte Norman, Hopewell, Ohio, to A. Norman, 

supposed to be in Camp Chase. 

125. April 20, from C. C. Knowls, Camp Chase, to William Nunn, Auburn, 

Ala. 

126. April 21, from A. S. Levy, Camp Chase, to Miss Ella Levy, 196 Maui 

Street, Memphis. 

127. April 20, from Lieut. J. H. Sanford, Camp Chase, to Asa Sanford, 

Dadeville, Va. 

128. April 20, from Lieut. Theodore Smith. Camp Chase, to Miss Theo- 

dore Smith, Frenchville, Va. 

129. April 19, from J. S. Carruthers, Camp Chase, to T. W. Carruthers, 

Mason's Depot, Tenn. 

130. April 30, from M. S. Neely, Camp Chase, to ]\[rs. Julia Neely, Den- 

mark, West Tenn. 
132. April 19, from Clabourne Watkins, Camp Chase, to George W. 

Wat kins, Little Rock, Ark. 
13 J. April 21, from T. H. Shackelford, Camp Chase, to Miss Virginia 

Shackelford, Okolona, Miss. - 

134. April 21, from W. T. Rogers, Camp Chase, to Mrs. L. W. ALilone. 

No address. 

135. April 29, from T. T. Cagar, Danville, Ky., to "Dear Doctor," Camp 

Chase. 
137. April 21, from G. D. Cross, Mount Gilead, Ohio, to A. H. Cross, 
Camp Chase. 

139. April 20, from James H. Wilkins and Bettie Wilkins, of Bowling 

Green, to David Rhea, Camp Chase. 

140. June 8, from Thomas York, Tennessee, to A. York, Camp Chase. 

141. March i, from W. H. Hanlon, Loachapoka, Ala., to his father (no 

name), supposed to be in Camp Chase. 

142. April 17, from F. M. Smith, Cincinnati. Ohio, to his brother. Camp 

Chase. 



i8o THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

143. April 20, from A. D. Black, Camp Chase, to Mrs. C. INI. Black, Dor- 
cheat, Ark. 

145. April 19, from R. M. Clark, to James Clark, Moultoii, Ala. 

146. April 22, from J. C. Durham, Camp Chase, to Iscia Durham, Mill- 

town, Ala. 

147. April 20, from John Hudson, Camp Chase, to Noah Hudson, West- 

ville, Ala. 
•48. April 21, from James F. Cook, Camp Chase, to Capt. Ridley, Corinlh, 
Miss. 

149. April 20, from Lieut. Furney Clark to Mr. Austin Clark, Han Ridge, 

Coffee County, Ala. 

150. April 21, from Sam P. Jukes to Mrs. Susan Hagood, Van Buren, Ark. 

151. April 21, from W. M. Smith, Camp Chase, to Kate. No address. 

152. May 20, from E. A. Britz, Utica, to his brother, Camp Chase. 

153. April 20, from G. A. Owings, Camp Chase, to J. R. Owings, Pond 

Springs, Ga. 

154. April 9, from B. H. Bridgefortt, Camp Chase, to his brother. No 

address. 

155. April 20, from George Cox, Camp Chase, to his father. No address. 

156. April 20, from R. J. Moore, Camp Chase, to S. R. Moore, Bay 

Springs, Miss. 

157. April 20, from P. J. Yates, Camp Chase, to his sister. No address. 

158. June 13, from Sam D. Crockett, Bridgeport, to J. R. Middleton, 
* Camp Chase. 

159. April 20, from J. Woodhall, Camp Chase, to T. H. Woodhall and 

wife, father and mother, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

160. June 29, from J. W. Cardwell, Harrodsburg, Ky., to Nim, Camp 

Chase. 

161. July I, from J. T. Harris, Harrodsburg, Ky., to his father, Camp 

Chase. 

162. May 8, from G. W. Hart, Johnson's Island, to Lieut. G, P. Chilcutt, 

Camp Chase. 

162. May 8, from P. A. Morgan, Johnson's Island, to G. P. Chilcutt, Camp 

Chase. 

163. July 8, from E. Paschal, Johnson's Island, to Lieut. G. P. Chilcutt, 

Camp Chase. 

163. April, from A. G. Hammach, Camp Chase, to his brother. No ad- 

dress. 

164. April 19, from W. S. Pardue, Camp Chase, to L. J. Pardue. No 

address. 

165. June 10, from Owen Breckennah, Payne's Depot, Ky., to Dear Billy, 

Camp Chase. 

166. April 21, from M. S. Miller, Camp Chase, to Mrs. Nana Miller. No 

address. 

167. April 19, from J. S. Thomas, Camp Chase, to his father. No address. 

168. April 20, from Lieut. W. P. P. Wrem, Camp Chase, to his father. 

No address. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 18 1 

169. April 20, from Harden Long, Camp Chase, to C. M. Long, Bridge- 

port, Ala. 

170. April 21, from R. H. Woolen, Camp Chase, to C. H. Adkins, Polers- 

ville, Tenn. 

171. April 20, from A. Moffin, Camp Chase, to Miss M. J. Maffin, Cov- 

ington, West Tenn. 
— . April 20, from M. G. Gallavvay, Camp Chase, to his brother. No 
address. 

173. April 19, from J. B. Hall, Camp Chase, to Allison G. Hall. No ad- 

dress. 

174. April 19, from J. M. Reese, Camp Chase, to his mother. No address. 

175. August 24, from M. L. Stockton, Camp Butler, to G. W. Stockton, 

Camp Chase. 

176. April 21, from Capt. Thomas M. Atkins, Camp Chase, to Hon. C. A. 

Henny, Confederate States Senator, Richmond, Va. 

177. May 31, from J. F. Gray, Fort Warren, Boston, to Valentine Wise, 

Camp Chase. 

178. April 20, from G. T. Willis, Camp Chase, to Miss G. A. Willis, 

Chattanooga, Tenn. 

179. April 21, from W. D. Lea)', Camp Chase, to William P. Leay, Rich- 

mo:: d, Va. 

180. April 20, from J. K. Whitfield, Camp Chase, to Mrs. J. K. Whitfield, 

Camden, Ark. 

181. April 19, from Capt. W. D. Twitley, Camp Chase, to his wife, Athens, 

Ala. 

182. April 20, from R. A. Silvidge, Camp Chase, to his wife, Falcon, Ark. 

183. April 21, from C. C. Knowles, Camp Chase, to his wife, Loachapoka, 

Ala. 

184. April 21, from Lieut. J. T. Durham, Camp Chase, to Mrs. Anna J. 

Durham, West Point, Ga. 

185. April 21, from Lieut. F. T. Scott, Camp Chase, to his mother, Mrs. 

E. T. Scott, Gainesville, Ala. 

186. April 21, from L. H. Kemp, Camp Chase, to A. H. Kinchelor and 

others of Co. D, 5th Ky. Regt., C. S. A., First Kentucky Brigade. 

187. April 20, from Lieut. C. Tuttle, Camp Chase, to F. B. Officer, Esq., 

Mobile, Ala. 

188. April 20, from John Lilly, Camp Chase, to Mr. John Woodman, Red 

Sulphur Springs, Va. 

189. April 21, from Capt. W. B. Locke, Camp Chase, to Mr. Jessie Locke, 

Perote, Pike County, Ala. 

190. April 20, from D. A. McKenzie. Camp Chase, to Mr. William John- 

son, Morton, Miss. 

191. April 20, from Lieut. L. J. Laird, Camp Chase, to his uncle, E. M. 

Kulds, Eufaula, Ala. 

192. April 21, from F. A. Ragsdale, Camp Chase, to W. J. Brooks or J. W. 

Markham, No. 10 Shelby, Memphis, Tern. 

193. April 20, from J. H. Christian, to ]\lr. J. T. Christian, Tanngville, 

Tallapoosa County, Ala. 



ib2 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

194. April 22, from William Lauirs, 12th Ga. Regt., Camp Chase, to Mrs. 

Mary Lauirs, Buena Vista, Ga. 

195. April 21, from Samuel M. Moses, Camp Chase, to Charles Moses, 

Black Creek, Augusta County, Va. 

196. April 20, from W. S. Smith, Camp Chase, to his mother, Mrs. Ann 

Pows, Black Creek, Choctaw County, Ala. 
— . April 21, from John Custer, Camp Chase, to Mrs. M. A. Custer, 
Marion County. Ala. 

198. April 22, from Z. M. Hall, Camp Chase, to his sister, Mrs. S. S. 

Griffin, Butler, Ala. 

199. April 20, from Lieut. W. R. Felton, ist Ala. Regt., Camp Chase, to 

his sister, Mrs. J. L. Strend, Richmond, Va. 

200. April 20, from H. Y. Shine to his father, J. F. Shine, Goodman, Miss. 

201. April 20, from R. H. Woolen to Joseph N. Moss, McNutt, Miss. 

202. April 21, from Lieut. Jeff Thompson to Mrs. Jeff J. Thompson, 

Greensburg, La. 

203. April 21, from Thomas F. Kneeland, Camp Chase, to Ben May, Esq., 

Bank of West Tennessee, Grenada, Miss. 

204. April 21, from J. T. Whitfield, Camp Chase, to Lieut. M. C. Pratt, 

Prattsville, Ala. 

205. April 20, from J. T. Williams, Camp Chase, to W. C. Williams, 

Memphis, Tenn. 

206. April 21, from C. C. Moore, Camp Chase, to Mrs. Louise Moore. 

Houston, Miss. 
— . April 21, from Thomas Filly, Camp Chase, to Private Jasper Ander- 
son, Co. B, 5th Ky. Vols., Breckinridge Brigade. 

208. April 21, from T. T. Foster, Camp Chase, to T. Boyd Foster, Steven- 

son, Ala. 

209. April 21, from J. M. Jackson" Camp Chase, 42d Tenn., to Dr. W. B. 

Garrison, Guntersville, Ala. 

210. April 20, from J. C. Hubbord, 40th Regt. Prov., to W. R. Marshall, 

DeWitte, Ark. 

211. April 21, from F. M. Whittaker, Camp Chase, to Jessie Whittaker. 

Monticello, Ark. 

212. April 20, from W. R. Seludge, Camp Chase, to T. T. Carlock, Fallon, 

Ark. 

213. April 19, from Camp D. W. Ramsey, ist Ala., Camp Chase, to Rev. 

A. C. Ramsey, Allenton, Ala. 

214. April 19, from T. J. McGehan to Flon. Thomas H. Foster, Rich- 

mond, Va. 

215. April 21, from Theodore Kelsey or Thomas F. Knulland to Ben 

May, Memphis, Tenn. 

216. April 21, from Lieut. E. A. Poe, nth Ark., Camp Chase, to Mrs. 

Martha J. Poe. Belfast, Ark. 

217. April 20, from J. Stoughton Carruthers, Adjt. 51st Tenn. Vols., to 

Mrs. B. Fannie Carruthers, Mason Depot, West Tenn. 

218. April 19, from Lieut. Henderson, ist Ala. Regt., Camp Chase, to John 

Flenderson, Talledega, Va. 



AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. 183 

219. April 20, from R. Gailland, Camp Chase, to Hon. Thomas H. Watts, 

Richmond, Va. 

220. April 21, from Charles B. Carters, Camp Chase, to Mrs. Eliza Carters, 

Waynesboro, Va. 

221. April 21, from Charles B. Carruthers, Lieut. Heavy Artillery, Camp 

Chase, to Rev. John R. Harrison, Jackson, Tenn. 

222. April 21, from Lieut. Felton, Camp Chase, to Noah Felton, Loacha- 

poka, Ala. 

223. April 20, from Capt. J. P. Jackson to G. W. Jackson, Erin, Ga. 

224. April 20, from J. F. Whitfield, Camp Chase, to his wife, Mrs. J. F. 

Whitfield, Montgomery, Ala. 

225. April 21, from Lieut. C. C. Knowles to W. W. Drake, Auburn, Ala. 

226. April 19, from S. L. Knox, Camp Chase, to his father. Dr. J. C. 

Knox, Talladega, Ala. 

227. April 20, from Mrs. W. D. Riblett, Millfall, Va., to Michael Riblett, 

Camp Chase. 

228. April 2T, from Lieut. J. Z. Wall, Camp Chase, to Mrs. Pauline R. 

Sittoon, Ponchatoula, La. 

229. April 20, from Charles B. Carter, Camp Chase, to James Carter, 

Meheny River, Va. 

230. April 20, from J. M. Jackson, Camp Chase, to Dr. John Ball, Rich- 

mond, Va. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
Johnson's Island. 

A Prison Comfortable in Summer, but Cold in Winter^The First Prison- 
ers to Arrive at Sandusky — The Town Turns Out to See Them — A 
Sad-Faced Lad — Making a Rope of the Flag — The Chaplain's Consoling 
Words — Letters from Johnson's Island — The Number of Prisoners 
upon the Island Each Month in 1862, 1863, 1864. 

There certainly could not have been a more pleasant spot 
chosen for a military prison than Johnson's Island, at least in the 
summer. Put-in-Bay and Cedar Point are now popular summer 
resorts, both within a few miles of Johnson's Island. The 
island was evidently fixed upon for prison purposes because of 
its safety for a large number of energetic and intelligent men 
who had an abundance of time to devise ways and means of 
escape. Men could tunnel out of the prison in the summer, but 
there was the lake, and the shore was three miles away. Prison- 
ers sometimes undertook to escape in winter; but if accomplished, 
it was ever a desperate undertaking. 

An account from the Confederate Veteran of July, 1900, is so 
liberal and fair that it is here reproduced with no little satisfac- 
tion. The article in the Veteran is vouched for by Lieutenant 
Cunningham, of Louisiana, who was at Johnson's Island sixteen 
months. Lieutenant Cunningham says : 

I am satisfied that, as compared with the enlisted men at Point 
Lookout, Elmira, Rock Island, Camps Morton, Chase, and Doug- 
las, the officers merely tasted purgatory; the men went beyond 
that. 

The Veteran says: 

Johnson's Island is situated at the mouth of Sandusky Bay, 
overlooking Lake Erie, and is about a mile long and a mile and 
a half wide. It was an ideal spot for a prison post. The grounds 
were inclosed with a fence twelve feet high, with a platform top, 
upon which sentinels moved night and day. To the north Lake 
Erie stretches away for fifty miles; on the east, across three 
miles of water, lies Sandusky ; while west and south of the island 
are broad stretches of Sandusky Bay. 



iS6 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The island was used almost exclusively as a prison for officers^ 
the total number confined there from first to last aggregating- 
over fifteen thousand. The first prisoners were taken there in 
April, 1862, and in September, 1865, the last of them were sent 
to Fort Lafayette, when Johnson's Island was abandoned as a 
prison post. 

The men confined on Johnson's Island represented the chivalry 
of the South. They were largely professional men and planters, 
among them being many who^ were prominent in science, liter- 
ature, and art. 

These men were treated during the period of their imprison- 
ment as befitted men in their station of life, so far as circumstances 
would permit, of course. They were lodged in comfortable 
houses, provided with suitable clothing, and their tables were 
furnished with an abundance of the substantials and many of the 
luxuries. They were subjected to no petty tyranny; but, on the 
contrary, were granted privileges enjoyed by prisoners at no 
other military prison in the North, an exception being made in 
their case, because, as a class, they were considered superior to 
ordinary prisoners, and were put upon their honor in many in- 
stances when it would have been hazardous to have trusted n.ien 
with less- scrupulous regard for their words. 

While this was true as to 1862, and perhaps 1863, in 1864 the 
cords were drawn and unnecessary cruelties were practiced. It 
is doubtless true that Johnson's Island was one of the best. Had 
prisoners, North or South, been guarded by veterans who had 
fought, the stories of cruelty would have been different. As a 
regiment, the Eighty-Eighth Ohio, at Camp Chase, was never 
outside the boundary of the State. Many of these men — not all, 
perhaps — enlisted to stay at home and do guard duty. The vet- 
erans from the front, returning home for reenlistment, disliked 
this regiment much more than they did any regiment of "Jolui- 
nies." The treatment of prisoners, as a general thing, in 1864 
and 1865 was a great, dark blot, an imperishable stain, upon 
American civilization. 

While Johnson's Island is within three miles of Sandusky, the 
county seat of Erie County, the island belongs to Ottawa County. 
In Ohio's war history the story of Johnson's Island is the story 
of Sandusky. The establishing of a prison on Johnson's Island 
w^as brought about through the energy and, exertions of a few 
of the leading business men of Sandusky. These gentlemen saw 
that such a station would be of great value to trade in that 



iS8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

city, and that the officers' quarters would be in and about the town 
rather than on the Island. 

The War Department sent an officer to look over various 
sites for a prison, and he was inclined to favor Detroit, and 
went to Sandusky with but little thought of locating the prison 
there. The business men, however, accorded him a warm re- 
ception, and made such offers of substantial aid to the government 
that he could not do otherwise than select the Island. 

Greater interest and importance was given this prison through 
the exploits of John Yates Beall, who made a fruitless attempt 
to rescue the prisoners of the Island. 

The first prisoners to arrive there were curiosities to the in- 
habitants. As soon as the news spread that there were two hun- 
dred Southerners coming — men who had fought and were con- 
sidered dangerous mortals — and that these soldier prisoners wear- 
ing gray uniforms were to sojourn for a time on the beautiful 
island over in the bay, excitement ran high. 

The Sandusky Register said : 

The great agony is over, and some of our people — in fact, a 
good many of them — have seen Rebels. For the l3enefit of such 
as could not get out last evening, we will give a minute descrip- 
tion of them. In the first place, they have the build of men — 
ordinary men. They would not have visited our city with just 
such an escort as they had yesterday, from choice. They were 
clad variously. We learn they were all officers, and some of 
them had the carriage and bearing of gentlemen. Some had the 
don't-care-a-dime swagger, some were sullen, and others jocose. 
One lad we saw leaning against the stay irons to the smokestack, 
after they were on board the Queen, looking musingly into the 
water with something of sadness on his face. 

The war had so blinded the writer of the above that he could 
not see in imagination a far-away Southern home, where the flow- 
ers were blooming and the birds singing. The editor could not 
see the tears that would come to a mother's eyes, even though 
she sought to be brave, as she felt it to be her duty. Perhaps 
the lad, who was an officer, saw as he looked into the water a face 
so fair and sweet that there was not another like it in all the 
world. Perhaps he saw in the depths of soulful eyes the look 
they wore when he marched away. The editor, though not heart- 
less, could not see the "wrinkled front of war" as it loomed up 
darklv between that far-away home in the South and the sad- 



JOHNSON'S ISLAND. 189 

faced boy on the boat. "Some were mischievous," the paper con- 
tinued. "Captain Orr had hoisted the national flag-, and one of 
the prisoners wadded up one corner, spat upon it, and wound it 
around the flagstafif. The Captain spoke to him in a friendly way, 
which so changed his mind that he untied, the flag and did not 
trouble it more." 

On April 28, as a train bearing a number of Confederate pris- 
oners was nearing Sandusky, a daring man, whose name was not 
given, made a leap from the train and took to the woods. The 
train was stopped and a search made, but the guards could not 
find him. The sequel to this story was told June 30. The pris- 
oner remained hidden until the 30th, when he went to Green 
Springs, Ohio, and entered the South-bound train. The con- 
ductor proved to be the one in charge of the train from which 
he escaped, and recognized him. When the train arrived at 
Kenton, the police were notified and the Confederate was taken tQ 
the Island. 

On the 29th of August four Confederate prisoners were re- 
leased on taking the oath of allegiance. They announced their 
intention of entering the Union army. Three of them said they 
w^ere from the North and had been impressed into the Confederate 
service. The Register^ commenting upon the case, remarked: "It 
is singular that impressed men were made officers." They were 
released, however, and gave their names as follows : S. B. Moore, 
impressed in Alabama ; H. C. Wringer, Lancaster, Pa., impressed 
in Arkansas; W. H. Rupert, Pekin, 111., impressed at Memphis; 
and J. W. Swanson, from Tennessee. 

Whitelaw Reid, in his historic work, "Ohio in the War," gives 
the following as the number of prisoners at the post during the 
diflferent months: 1862, average for April, 444; May, 1,074; June, 
1,105; J^^b'' iji49j August, 14,524; exchanged during the month 
of September, 1,123. Average for September, 595 ; aggregate Oc- 
tober 31, 893 ; aggregate November 30, 295 ; December 31, 209. 

Mr. Reid further adds in this work : 

It should be remembered that a cartel for a general exchange 
of prisoners of war had long been expected, and was finally 
agreed upoa July 22, 1862. Under that cartel and special ar- 
rangement exchanges went on until July, 1863, and a continuance 
was expected. This expectation, with the belief of general loy- 
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192 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

mate influence on the prisoners, and undoubtedly prevented efforts 
at outbreak and resistance until late in the fall of 1863. 

The stoppage of exchanges, followed by the assembling of 
considerable forces from the Confederate army and navy in Can- 
ada, and the machinations of disloyal organizations in Ohio, In- 
diana, and elsewhere, known to intend a rescue of these prisoners^ 
with attendant devastations on the lake towns and commerce, 
showed these posts (Johnson's Island and Sandusky) to be un- 
safe without considerable reenforcements. Six companies of the 
Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, with the Twenty-Fourth Battery (six 
guns) and two detachments of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery 
(with seven heavy guns), were sent to the Island early in Novem- 
ber, 1863, followed promptly by the Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth 
Regiments of the National Guard and a Pennsylvania battery.. 
These National Guard commands remained only a short time ; 
the other troops remained all winter. 

The First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, includ- 
ing five regiments, attended by two brigadier generals from the 
Army of the Potomac, reached Sandusky on January 13, 1864. 
Four of these regiments, with General Shaler in command, were 
stationed on the Island. The other regiment, with Gen. H. D.. 
Terry commanding the whole, was at Sandusky. They all re- 
mained until April 14, 1864, when three regiments, under General 
Shaler, returned to the Army of the Potomac, Sixth Corps. 

It is learned officially that there were on January 31, 1863,. 
2,603 prisoners on the Island; February, 2,206; March, 2,192;- 
April, 2,088; May, 2,134; June, 2,309; July, 2,441 ; August, 2,556; 
September, 2,663; October, 2,621; November, 2,747; December, 
3,209; while the numbers at the end of each month for the year 
1864 were: January, 2,603; February, 2,206; March, 2,192; April,. 
2,088; May, 2,134; June, 2,309; July, 2,441 ; August, 2,556; Sep- 
tember, 2,662; October, 2,621 ; November, 2,747; December, 3,209. 

Except about one hundred, they were officers of the Confed.- 
erate army and navy, of all grades from second lieutenant to 
major general. 

The following letters from Johnson's Island were found among 
the Camp Chase letters at the Ohio Statehouse : 

Sandusky, Ohio, April 25, 1862. 

My Dear Mamma: An opportunity for sending letters through 
to Richmond has at last presented itself; consequently, I write to 
inform you that I am in good health. I arrived here yesterday 
evening, having been quartered at Camp Chase, near Columbus,, 
up to this time, and regretted very much to leave there. We were. 



JOHNSOX'S ISLAND. 193 

kindly treated and well provided for in every necessary way by 
the authorities, headed by Governor Tod. Only myself and 
Lieutenant Anderson came from our mess yesterday, but I learn 
all the prisoners now here are to come in a few^ days. The ob- 
ject in removing us is our health during- the summer and fall ; 
but I believe I would rather have risked that for the considera- 
tion of other advantages, etc. 

I am now in a mess with Alex Trotter- and three strangers. 
Say to Willie that Trotter is in fine health. 

I never suffered more in my life than for six weeks after our 
surrender, principally from cold. I am now suffering in mind 
for want of news from home. You can have an idea of the 
solicitude which I feel for my friends, and also my country's 
interest. You must all write me long letters, addressed to this 
place. 

I shall hope to hear from you all by ^Irs. Clark, if she remains 
in Richmond long enough to get your letters ; and if not, it is 
possible to get them through by flag of truce via Norfolk. 

My best love to all my friends, particularly the feminine portion 
of them. It seems I would give the world for an hour of liberty 
at home now, yet I entertain bright hopes for the future, more, so 
than I have ever done. My love to all the family. 

Your son, Walter A. Ash by. 

P. S.^-I have not touched on matters relating to the war — our 
struggle at Fort Donelson — fearing that it would not be allowed, 
and in consequence of which my letter might be stopped. Tell 
Mrs. Everett that John AI. E., John Garborough, William Mc- 
Queen, and George Estis were all well last week. W^m.ter. 

S.\NDUSKY, Ohio, April 25, 1862. 

De.\r Uncle: There being such a slight probability of this 
ever reaching you, I shall make this a mere note. I am well and 
as comfortably situated as could be expected. Give yourself no 
uneasiness, and be assured I will be provided for — if not com- 
fortably, at least well. Mr. Cornell is with me. McGowan is at 
Camp Chase. I just received a letter from Eggleston, who says 
the deaths from our county in the Fourteenth at Chicago are 
W. J. Woodward and T. B. Evans, Shubuta County; Ed W^elling- 
ton and W. G. Strangham, Enterprise County ; John T. Hardie. 

You can let their friends know of their fate. 

With love to all, your devoted nephew, Alex Trotter. 

To Gen. W. B. Trotter, Quitman, Miss. 

These were the only letters from Sandusky, Ohio, in the 
box of letters found in the Statehouse. 
13 



CHAPTER XV. 

Stories of the Prison in Sandusky Bay. 

Prison Rules at Johnson's Island — The Grapevine Telegraph — -The Opin- 
ion of Whitelaw Reid — The Execution of Corbin and McGraw — A 
Pathetic Letter — A Deserter Shot — Campbell, the Spy— Wanted Back 
in Prison — Adventure of Capt. Gubbins — How Lieut. Bowles was 
Killed — A Brave Kentuckian Calmly Meets His Fate. 

The government report shows a total of 7,357 prisoners at 
one time or another at Johnson's Island, and there are 260 graves. 
The record shows that only two were killed for disobeying rules. 

REGULATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY PRISON 
• AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND. 

Headquarters Hoffman's Battalion^ Department of Pris- 
oners OF War, Near Sandusky, Ohio, March i, 1862. 

Order No. i. — It is designed to treat prisoners of war with 
all the kindness compatible with their condition, and as few 
orders as possible will be issued respecting them, and their 
own comfort will be chiefly secured by prompt and implicit 
obedience. 

Order No. 2. — The quarters have been erected at great ex- 
pense by the government for the comfort of prisoners of war ; 
so the utmost caution should be used against fire, as in case of 
their destruction the prisoners will be subjected to much ex- 
posure and suffering for want of comfortable quarters, as others 
will not be erected and rude shelters only provided. 

Order No. 3. — All prisoners are required to parade in their 
rooms and answer to their names half an hour after reveille 
and at retreat. 

Order No. 4. — Meals will be taken at breakfast drum, din- 
ner drum, and half an hour before retreat. 

Order No. 5. — Quarters must be thoroughly policed by 10 
o'clock in the morning. 

Order No. 6. — All prisoners will be required to remain in 
their own quarters after retreat, except when they have occasion 
to visit the sinks ; lights will be extinguished at taps, and no fires 
will be allowed after that time. 



STORIES OF THE PRISON /;V SANDUSKY BAY. 195 

Order No. 7. — Quarrels and disorders of every kind are 
strictly prohibited. 

Order No. 8. — Prisoners occupying officers' quarters in Blocks 
I, 2, 3, and 4 will not be permitted to visit the soldiers' quarters 
in Blocks 5, 6, 7, and 8, nor go upon the grounds in their vicinity, 
nor beyond the line of stakes between the officers and soldiers' 
quarters, nor will the soldiers be allowed to go upon the ground 
in the vicinity of the officers' quarters, or beyond the line of 
stakes between the officers' and soldiers' quarters. 

Order No. 9. — No prisoners will be allowed to loiter between 
the buildings or by the north and west fences, and they will be 
permitted north of the buildings only when passing to and from 
the sinks ; nor will they approach the fences anywhere else nearer 
than thirty feet, as the line is marked out by the stakes. 

Order No. 10. — Guards and sentinels will be required to fire 
upon all who violate the above orders. Prisoners will, therefore, 
bear them carefully in mind, and be governed by them. To for- 
get under such circumstances is inexcusable, and may prove fatal. 

By order of William S. Pierson. 

B. W. Wells, Lieutenant and Post Adjutant. 

In speaking of that great news agency in all prisons, ''the grape- 
vine telegraph line," Colonel Barbiere says in his "Scraps from 
Prison Mess :" 

The grapevine of Johnson's Island is one of the most remark- 
able things on the island. It is under the control of men whose 
reputation for creating expedients are of camp-wide notoriety. 
They build up the most wonderful stories of speedy exchange, 
of paroles, of great victories by the Confederate armies, utter 
annihilation of Federal hosts, and the taking of thousands of 
prisoners. It has an agent in each mess, whose arrival with the 
latest news is received with strained eyeballs and palpitating 
hearts, every word of which is eagerly swallowed, because the 
wish is father to the thought ; and, hope is the strongest element in 
our nature, lasting beyond the grave. 

I think the grapevine line was a powerful agent in assisting to 
develop the slumbering element that burst upon the country 
with the inauguration of war. Legislatures were influenced by 
its action. The grapevine line did much in bringing this bloody 
and fraternal strife upon the country. There are true men who 
know this to be a fact. 

The sutler, Joe, is the Sandusky agent of this line, and is quite 
a character in his way. 

Captain Riley is the chief, but Joe is the "Friday" of the es- 
tablishment. Joe winks at you and says, "it is all right," smug- 
gles in a drop of the "crather," and charges you double price. 



196 THE STORY OP CAMP CHASE. 

Joe is a clever fellow and, for a sutler, is as honest as a sutler 
can well be. He has been kind and obligina^ to us. and has our 
hearts' remembrance. 

Speaking- of affairs at Johnson's Island in 1864, the Hon. 
Whitelaw Reid, in his "Ohio in the War," sa}s : 

Here were officers enough for an army and navy of eighty 
thousand men. They were within a short distance of the Can- 
ada main, and still nearer to a Canada island. The prevailing 
sympathy in Canada was largely in favor of the Rebels, and their 
everv facility and encouragement, short of direct participation 
in our war, was extended to the large Rebel force from its 
army and navy maintained in Canada to effect a rescue of these 
officers. 

H by such efforts war could be brought on between the United 
States and England, a great point would be gained by the South. 
No other depot of prisoners was on the frontier or exposed like 
this. During the season of navigation it could be reached from 
Canada in a few hours' night run, and during the winter season 
men and teams could conveniently cross the lake from island to 
island, not over five miles of ice intervening in any place. 

During the season of ice the location of the depot of prisoners 
practically ceased to be an island. The capture of that depot, 
or the rescue of the prisoners confined there, would not only be of 
immense advantage to the Rebel cause and give them great eclat, 
but would be a deep humiliation to our government and people, 
and would, almost certainly be attended by attacks upon our lake 
commerce and devastation of our lake towns. 

The officers confined on the Island had a large range of friends 
and acquaintances in the loyal States. For them the Rebel emis- 
saries traveling in those States, and in the secret orders known 
as "Knights of the Golden Circle" and "Sons of Liberty," had an 
especial sympathy, and were anxious to aid them by means of 
rescue, or with places of refuge or concealment. They had the 
means of knowing each other. 

These facts, with the difficulty about exchanges, stimulated 
machinations for rescue, front and rear, and kept the prisoners 
constantly on the qiii vivc for any desperate adventure until after 
the fall of Petersburg. 

During the month of May, 1863, a number of sympathizers 
with the Southern cause were brought to Johnson's Island to 
serve sentences at hard labor. One of these was named Thomas 
Sullivan, who had attempted to enlist a company of men for the 
war. He was ostensibly recruiting for the Union army, but sub- 
sequent events showed that he hoped to get his men South. He 



STORIES OF THE PRISOX L\ SAXDUSKV BAY. 197 

was court-martialed in Cincinnati and sent to Sandusky in irons, 
but no further mention is made concerning him in the newspapers 
of that day. 

On May 4 of the same year six prisoners reached Sandusky and 
were immediately hurried over to the Island. One of them was 
sentenced to hang May 8. and the two others to be shot ]vlay 15. 
The two sentenced to be shot on the 15th were William F. Corbin 
and F. C. ]\IcGraw, and were charged with being Confederate 
spies. The Commander at Johnson's Island was ordered to see 
that the sentence be duly executed upon that date. 

EXECUTIOX OF CoRBIN AND McCiR.VW ON JOHNSOX's IsLAXD 

Preli.mixarv ArraxgemexXts — Going to the Place of Execu- 
Tiox — Impressive Scene Precedixg the Last Act — Ad- 
mirable Performance of the Painful Drama by the Mili- 

TAKV ! 

The foregoing were the most prominent headlines in the San- 
dusky Register of Saturday morning, May 16, 1863. Nearly two 
columns were devoted to the narration of the sad scene, a portion 
of which is used : 

Yesterday afternoon the sentence passed upon William Corbin 
and F. G. McGraw, convicted by court-martial assembled at Cin- 
cinnati on a charge of recruiting for the Confederate army with- 
in the lines of the Cnited States forces, and of carrying mails and 
information to the Confederates, was executed on Johnson's 
Island depot of prisoners of war. near Sandusky. The execution 
was strictly military, none being allowed on the Island except 
the soldiers, officers of the government, and reporters for the 
press. In the morning the Island was picketed by Lieutenant 
Wells, and the prisoners in the yard restricted to close quarters 
about the buildings occupied by them. 

At I p.m. the battalion formed, under command of Capt. T. 
H. Linnell. and marched by flank from the parade to the south 
side of the Island, fronting the bay, and formed in line of battle. 
At twenty minutes past one the prisoners were securely bound 
and, under guard of the execution party, accompanied by their 
•escort and the chaplain, left the prison for the place of execution. 

The prisoners rode in a two-horse wagon, seated upon one of 
the coffins, their spiritual adviser. Rev. R. McCune, chaplain of 
the Post, sitting between them, and the band playing the "Dead 
March." As soon as they reached the place of execution they were 
taken from the wagon and seated in their coffins in front of the 
battalion. The battalion immediately formed a hollow square, 



198 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

the execution party, under command of Lieutenant Hollenback, 
acting provost marshal, occupying a position immediately in front 
of the center, facing the prisoners, their escort and chaplain at- 
tending them, while Major Pierson and staff occupied a position 
to the right. 

Adjutant Bailey then read the finding of the court-martial, when 
Rev. R. McCune stepped forward beside the condemned men and 
said: 

"I am desired by these unfortunate men to return their thanks 
to the commander of this Post, and to all the officers and men 
with whom they have had intercourse, for the kindness and sym- 
pathy they have received since their arrival here. I am also 
charged by them to say to all in attendance that they die forgiving 
all their enemies and accusers and in love and charity with all 
men, believing in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that they have 
been thus far consoled and sustained by its truths, and that, trust- 
ing in the mercy of God, they have hope of eternal life." 

The Chaplain then, in an earnest, impassioned, and fervent man- 
ner, invoked the Throne of Grace for the unfortunate men. The 
prisoners were blindfolded, the provost marshal gave the neces- 
sary commands to the execution party, and IMcGraw and Corbin 
paid the penalty of their acts. 

The firing was instantaneous, so that the sixteen muskets 
seemed to make but one report. Both men fell back upon their 
coffins and died without a struggle. The bodies were taken to 
Kentucky for burial, General Burnside having given orders that 
the}'- be turned over to a friend who had been devoted to them— - 
Mr. Cal DeMoss, of Flag Spring, Ky. 

All the proceedings attending this execution were peculiarly 
solemn and impressive. Both prisoners appeared perfectly com- 
posed and collected, and met their fate like men. For several 
days they had given up all hope of pardon or reprieve. They 
manifested a great deal o"f gratitude for the kindness shown 
them by the chaplain of the Post, who had been unremitting in 
his attentions. 

The day before he was shot Corbin received a beautiful and 
pathetic letter from Rev. Robert Graham, a minister of the Disci- 
ples or Christian Church, of Eighth Street, Cincinnati, which is 
here given : 

"Cincinnati, Mav 13, 1863. 
"Mr. W. F. Corbin. 

Dear and Afflicted Brother : At the request of your sorrow- 
ing sister, and moved by my interest in you, I will commune with 
5-ou, in all probability for the last time on earth. It is with deep 
sympathy in your affliction and that of your dear mother and sis- 
ter that I endeavor to do this. 



STORIES OF THE rRISON IN SANDUSKY BAY. i 



99 



"To contemplate death at any time is solemn and well calcu- 
lated to awe the human soul ; but in a case like this we feel all our 
pity awakened and our sympathy called forth. I would I had 
the power to describe the feelings of your family and friends, in 
view of your approaching end. I am charged by your sister to 
assure you that neither she nor your mother can attach ignominy 
to your memory. Though you die a violent death, and are so re- 
quired by the laws of the country, they can make allowance for the 
influence under which you acted, which others who know you not 
cannot make. Your sister and Mr. DeMoss got here the day 
you were removed from this city. I told your sister the substance 
of what you said to me during our interview. It was a cordial to 
her wounded spirit to be assured that you would meet your end 
prepared for the solemn change through the mercy of God in 
Christ, and that you will attain the crown of eternal life. 

"Mr. Patterson, Brother Bishop (formerly mayor of this city, 
afterwards governor of Ohio), Mr. DeMoss, your devoted friend, 
and myself had an interview with General Burnside and presented 
a petition in your behalf signed by some of the most influential 
citizens of your country. The General treated us very kindly and 
heard all we had to say. He assured us it would be one of the 
happiest acts of his life to recommend you and Brother McGraw 
to the clemency of the President, if he could do so consistently 
wath his views of duty in the responsible position he now fills. 
We were all deeply impressed with General Burnside's goodness 
of heart and his sincerity. He kindly ofifered to send the petition 
to the President. We had a certified copy taken and gave the 
original to the General to send to Washington. Mr, DeMoss 
and your sister went immediately to Washington and used every 
power and influence possible with the President to get your sen- 
tence commuted. They returned day before yesterday. Before 
this reaches you some of your friends will have seen you and told 
you all. I will only add, while on this point, that all praise is 
due your devoted friend^, Mr. DeMoss, for his untiring labors 
for your pardon. Had you been his own brother, he could not 
have done more. 

"I need not say that your sister has been most devoted to you. 
Let these reflections cheer you in this dark hour. 

"Your grave shall be wet with tears, and fervent praters shall 
go up to our God that your faith fail not. 

"Read this letter to Brother McGraw. Though written to you, 
it is for him also. Farewell, brethren. May the God of all 
mercy and grace, who alone can know our hearts, and before 
whom we shall shortly appear, comfort, console, and support you, 
and at last receive both of you into his everlasting rest ! 

"Again farewell ; in tears, but in hope and love, farewell ! 

Robert Graham." 



200 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

On the 15th of June, 1863. a private of the Sixtieth Indiana 
Infantry, named Reuben Stout, was taken to Johnson's Island. 
He was heavily ironed and a death sentence hung over him for 
desertion and murder. He was to be shot on the 26th instant, 
but before that date arrived orders came to defer the execution 
thirtv days. Finally, the day was fixed upon when he should 
expiate his crime — October 23, 1863. Before he was shot he told 
the story of his disgrace and wrongdoing; and as it was of more 
than ordinary interest, it will be briefly narrated : 

Stout had been induced to enlist by an enrolling officer in wh.it 
he supposed was a cavalry company ; at least, the promise had 
been made that he should go in cavalry. He was made a mem- 
ber of Company E, Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, however, and with 
this change he was much dissatisfied. After some months he 
was given a furlough, and while home took sick, and while iU 
he was atrged not to go back at all. Not only did his relatives 
urge this, but a number of disloyal Democrats promised to aid him 
if he would join the "Knights of the Golden Circle." It was at 
Delphi, Ind., while hiding at the home of his father-in-law, that 
he joined this disloyal organization. 

He attended many meetings, he said, and took an oath not to 
support the government, but to resist the draft, if one was made, 
and to do all in his power to aid the South. 

Afther staving four months with his father-in-law, he found it 
necessary for his safety to go to the home of his brother, some 
distance from Delphi. Stout was married, and his wife accom- 
panied him 6n his visit to his brother. It was then that the trag- 
edy occurred that led to his execution. On the evening in ques- 
-tion Stout was upstairs, while his wife and his brother's family 
were sitting talking in the family room, when a sharp rap came 
which startled all of them. The brother of Stout went to the 
door, and as soon as it was open two men quickly entered. After 
a brief conversation upon general subjects, one of the men, wdio 
gave his name as Hufifman, asked if Simon Stout were there. The 
brother said he knew no such man. Huffman, pointing at the 
deserter's wife, said that he was, and that it was his wife sitting 
there. 

"You are the wife of that cowardlw Copperhead deserter, aren't 
you ?" he asked. 

"No," replied the wife timidly; but her looks belied her words. 



STORIES OF 1 mi I'RISOX IX SANVrSKV BAY. 201 

The other man, named McAffee, asked for a candle, as they - 
proposed to search the house. McAffee had made his request 
politely, when Huffman angrily said : "Don't ask any favors of 
these miserable Copperheads. The deserter is here, and we will 
get him if we have to shoot him." 

Stout, who was at the head of the stairs, listening to the con- 
versation, had his pistol in hand. Huffman secured a light and 
was about to go upstairs, when Stout, who was concealed by the 
darkness, ordered him to leave the house. 

"We have come for you and will take you, dead or alive!" an- 
swered Huffman, as he held the candle up that he might see the 
man he was hunting. Stout fired, and Huffman fell, exclaiming: 
"O God, I'm killed !" 

Stout then rushed from the building as McAft'ee was bending 
over the body of the dying man. The deserter ran to the house 
of a neighbor, who was one of the "Knights of the Golden Circle," 
and he was expected to warn other members of the order and 
unite in saving him — by force, if necessary. The man was either 
afraid or did not act promptly enough, for Stout was captured 
by a posse before morning. 

Sometime during the month of August, 1863, eighty-one Con- 
federate officers were sent from Alton, 111., to Johnson's Island, 
and were in charge of a number of men from the Thirty-First 
Iowa, known as the *'Ciray-Pjeard Brigade." A Sandusky paper, 
in speaking of the arrival of the prisoners, said : 

This regiment is one of the curiosities of the war, as it is com- 
posed entirely of old or middle-aged men. The average age of 
the entire regiment is fifty-seven years. One man is eighty-one 
years of age and has twenty-one children — fifteen sons in the 
Union army. This is a workl-beater — a father and fifteen sons in 
the army at the same time ! We learn that most of these men are 
in good circumstances, some of them being wealthy. Man_\" of 
thm wore long, gray beards, making their name, "Gray-Beard 
Brigade," most appropriate. 

In the issue of the Sandusk}' Rc<^isfer of April 29, 1863, the 
announcement was made that Thomas A. Campbell, of the Con- 
federate Arm\-, had been captured within the Cnion lines, and 
that a military court had, found him guilty of being a spy and 
sentenced him to be hanged bv the neck until dead. General 



302 IHE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Burnside ordered him brought to Johnson's Island, and that the 
commander of the Post see that the sentence be duly executed at 
noon of the ist day of May. On April 30 the announcement was 
made that the execution would be deferred until May 8, between 
the hours of 12 m. and 3 p.m. On May 4 the paper said that 
Campbell had sgnified his willingness to inform on other spies, 
and would not, therefore, meet the penalty of death. 
]\Iay 7 the following appeared : 

According to the programme, the spy, Campbell, has only one 
day between him and the gallows. We understand that no word 
has been received from Washington setting aside the death pen- 
alty. 

Two days later the same paper said that the execution was 
postponed until the 22d of the month. May 21, 1862, the an- 
nouncement was made that Campbell would die Friday, May 29. 

On May 26 the execution of Campbell was indefinitely post- 
poned, and no further mention was made in the papers about the 
case ; and it is therefore presumed that he remained a prisoner 
until the close of the war. 

On the night of January 5, 1864, two men dressed in Federal 
overcoats stopped at the home of a man by the name of Lilas, who 
lived near the Seven-Mile House, seven miles from Sandusky. 
They asked to stay all night, and were accorded permission to stay. 
They were careful not to remove their overcoats, even though 
urged to do so. They said they were from Chicago and had busi- 
ness in that part of the country. They spoke about having trav- 
eled quite a distance that day in the cold, and early begged to be 
permitted to retire. 

A son of Mr. Lilas was at home at that time, he being a member 
of the Eighth Ohio Regiment, and the young man conceived the 
idea that the men were not what they pretended, and went to the 
Seven-]\Iile House and reported his suspicions. This was on the 
morning of the 6th, and at the time young Lilas left, the men 
were at the home of his father. Three men — Isaac McKisson, H. 
A. Lyman, and James McKisson — decided to accompany Lilas 
and take the men into custody until it was determined who they 
were. The strangers had left in the meantime ; but the pursuing 
party soon overtook them, they being in sleighs and the travelers 
afoot. When invited to ride they made no protest, and ere long 
faced the provost marshal at Sandusky. To this official they re- 



STORIES OF THE PRISON IN SANDUSKY BAY. 203 

iterated their former statement about being from Chicago, where 
they had Hved for some time. When asked about the army 
overcoats, they said they purchased them in Chicago. They were 
required to unbutton their overcoats, when beneath the blue the 
gray appeared. They said they had purchased these gray suits at 
Chicago also. The provost marshal was inclined to doubt these 
statements, and placed the men in the hands of the sherifif of 
Sandusky. 

They had not long been in jail until the provost official received 
a note, saying : 

I am desirous of being sent to Johnson's Island and confined 
there again as a prisoner of war. My name is J. Crawford John- 
son, and my rank is that of lieutenant colonel, C. S. A. Also, 
Capt. D. Burton Coulter, C. S. A., wishes to be sent to that place. 
We were sent here this day by your order, under the names of 
J. Crawford and David Barton. 

I am your obedient servant, 

J. C. Johnson, Lieut. Col., C. S. A. 

It is needless to say their request was granted. They did not, 
however, give any information in regard to their escape, or how 
they came by the United States overcoats. 

On the evening of January 2, 1864, Captain Gubbins made an 
unsuccessful attempt to leave Johnson's Island. He made a dash 
for liberty ; had a day of freedom — cold, unsatisfactory freedom. 
It seems he had provided himself with a board having cleats upon 
it, a board of sufficient length to reach to the top of the stockade. 
He waited until the guards patrolling near the point from which 
he wished to escape were receding from each other, made a dash, 
and cleared the inclosure. After getting outside, he encountered 
one of the outer line of pickets and apparently surrendered. 
Watching his opportunity, however, he knocked the guard down 
and broke for the ice. It was quite a severe blow, and when the 
guard gathered himself together the Confederate captain was 
swiftly hurrying over the frozen lake. During his flight he lost 
his cap, but he did not attempt to secure it ; he was bent on get- 
ting to the peninsula, which he reached in safety. Where he 
spent the night is not known; but he called at the home of Mr. 
Henry Miller, about four miles from Port Clinton, early Sunday 
morning. He told Mr. Miller who he was, and inquired the way 
to Sandusky, and also as to the likelihood of being arrested if he 



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reached there. Mr. Miller made no effort to arrest him. being 
alone ; but later managed to get a message to his sons, living near, 
and when they appeared demanded the surrender of the Confed- 
erate officer. The Captain surrendered gracefully, and was re- 
turned to the Island. 

One of the rare tragedies of Johnson's Island occurred alxjut 
I o'clock A.iM. December 14. 1864. During those days prison 
fare was less abundant and prison courtesies fewer than in 1862- 
63, and men took more desperate chances to get away. The fol- 
lowing were the headlines to an article of considerable I'^ngth in 
the Sandusky Register on the morning of December 14, 1864: 

Escape of Prisoners from Johnson's Island — They Im- 
provise Scaling Ladders — Twenty-Five of Them Make a 
Rush upon the Guard Line— Four of the Prisoners Scale 
THE Fence — :The Guards Fire Promptly — Bring Down One 
and Kill Lieut. John B. Bowles, Son of the President of 
the Bank of Louisville. Ky. — Sixteen of Them Return — 
Beating the Long Roll — Diligent Search Made for the 
Fugutives — They Are Recaptured — Citizens on the Island 
and Peninsula on the Alert. 

About one o'clock yesterday morning, by a preconceived ar- 
rangement, a rush was made by twenty-four prisoners upon the 
center of the guard line, on the northwest side of the prison. The 
prisoners had improvised eight scaling ladders by attaching cleats 
to boards. These boards were light and easily carried and just 
the thing for scaling the high prison fence. The rush occasioned 
the cry, "Turn Out the Guard!" accompanied by a rattling fire 
from the guard line ; but the rush was so impetuous, and by so 
many different prisoners, that, in spite of the guard, four men 
out of the twenty-four scaled the fence, passed the guard, escaped 
from the Island, crossed the north channel, and went over upon 
the peninsula. Of the others who did not get through, one re- 
ceived a shot, cutting away his coat at the waist, narrowly escap- 
ing a death wound, was knocked down and captured. An- 
other, Lieut. John B. Bowles, son of the president of the Louis- 
ville Bank, was shot twice through the body and killed. The 
other eighteen found the work too hot, and retreated to their bar- 
racks. The rush upon the guard was followed by the signal gun 
and long roll sounded. The long roll had sounded but once be- 
fore, and that was when, in September, 1864, a tornado swept 
one-third of the fence awa\-. At that time, when the tornado 
raged, the prisoners were content to remain in their quarters, 
where they could only pray or wish that the howling storm might 
not destrov their shelter. 



SrORIIlS OF THE FRISOX IX SJXDUSKV BAY. 205 

It was impossible to tell how many had escaped or what had be- 
come of all of them. To make sure of any who might be lurking- 
on the Island, awaiting better opportunities to elude observation, 
three companies of the Sixth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, 
were ordered out to patrol the Island and make a thorough search. 

At the same time detachments of the One Hundred and Twent\- 
Eighth Regiment were ordered off in pursuit of the escaped pris- 
oners who had passed the picket on the northwest side of the 
Island, receiving a fire from them at long range. The fleeing 
prisoners made the best time possible. The morning roll call 
showed that but four had left the prison. 

The four men who escaped crossed over the ice to the peninsula, 
hoping to hide there successfull}' until they could get away to 
Canada. 

There is a large vineyard near the point on the peninsula, owned 
by a Xlv. Wright, who, when he heard the cannon-firing and the 
rattle of musketry, arose, dressed hurriedly, grasped his gun, and 
started for the fray. Presently he saw three men appr.oaching 
him — men who were winded, but who w'ere making violent efforts 
to make good time on the ice. He saw by their dress they were 
Confederates, and called to them: "Stop, or I'll put holes through 
you !" The prisoners halted and were returned to the stockade. 
The fourth prisoner was recaptured sometime during the follow- 
ing day. There was considerable excitement at Sandusky on ac- 
count of the cannon-firing. It w^as afterwards learned that it 
was done to break the ice and prevent further attempts at escape. 

The body of Lieutenant Bowles, at the request of his father, 
was prepared for burial and forwarded to Louisville. 

On the afternoon of September 2, 1864, there occurred an oc- 
casion of no little moment, even in wartime. A young man, not 
yet twenty, handsome and manly, a soldier who did not flinch or 
cringe or beg for life, when told that a military commission said 
that he must die, and by hanging, received the intelligence with 
great cahimess and prepared for the end. 

This young man was John G. Xickell, of Kentucky, who had 
enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of eighteen. Later 
he became a partisan ranger and killed one or two men. 

At a quarter before one the troops, under the command of Col. 
Charles W. Hill, were formed into column and marched to the 
field west of the prison, where the gallows was erected. The 
prisoner, accompanied by the chaplain, rode in a wagon guarded 
by twelve men and accompanied by the burial party, preceded by 
martial music playing the "Dead ]\Iarch." On the arrival of the 



2o6 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

condemned the regiment was formed into a hollow square around 
the scafifold and he was seated on the coffin. The proceed- 
ings of the military court were read by Adjutant Hayes, after 
which the chaplain read a paper signed by the prisoner a few 
moments before leaving for the place of execution, stating that 
he was born in Kentucky September 26, 1843. ^"^ twenty-four 
days he would have been twenty-one years of age. He had en- 
listed in the Confederate service at the age of eighteen years. 
The prisoner expressed thanks for the kindly treatment by officers 
and men during the short time he was on the Island. He also 
made a statement in regard to the crime with which he was 
charged, and asked that it be not printed, which request was 
observed by the representatives of the Sandusky papers present 
at the execution. Prayer was offered by the chaplain, and then 
the prisoner was told to arise. 

He stood up promptly, with head erect, but without bravado." 
His quiet, brave demeanor impressed his enemies — enemies with- 
out enmity at that solemn moment. The rope was speedily ad- 
justed, the cap drawn over his eyes, the spring touched, and the 
tragedy was at an end. Brave and handsome was this young 
Kentuckian at noon of that September day. Soon afterwards the 
stalwart form was lifeless. 

There were six specifications against him, all of which the com- 
mission found him guilty of; and to all he pleaded "not guilty," 
except the first. They charged: "The unlawful taking up of 
arms as a guerrilla and military insurgent ; the unlawful killing 
of Logan Wilson, in Morgan County, Ky., February 3, 1863 ; the 
killing of John D. Nichols and Preston Pettit, of Kentucky." 

A grave was prepared on the Island, and he was interred there- 
in; but his name does not appear in the list of dead on Johnson's 
Island published in this book. 



CHAPTER X\I. 
The Great Conspiracy. 

Plan to Liberate the Prisoners on Johnson's Island — Beall Captures 
the Philo Parsons and the Island Queen — Capt. Cole Fails to Capture 
the Gunboat Michigan, Guarding Sandusky Bay — The Conspirators to 
Spike the Guns of the Land Batteries — In Face of Danger They 
Weakened — Capture of Cole — How Beall Got Away with the Philo 
Parsons — The Efifort to Get Canada Involved in War with the United 
States — Great Excitement at Sandusky — Warning of the Toronto 
(Canada) Globe — The Trials of Beall and Burleigh — Southern Version 
of the Plot. 

The most important episode in the history of Johnson's Island 
was the plot to free the prisoners, capture Sandusky, destroy if 
and such other lake cities as could be reached, and escape either 
through Canada, or, if reenforced by Southern sympathizers in 
sufificient numbers, march through Ohio and reach the South by 
way of Kentucky. The plot came near involving this country in 
a controversy with England — possibly the primary object of the 
conspirators; but, fortunately for the North, and Canada as well, 
the plot failed. 

. The Sandusky Register of Wednesday morning, September 21, 
1864, printed a story, under startling headlines, that alarmed the 
people of Ohio and made most Union citizens look askance at 
their Democratic neighbors. From mouth to mouth the story 
went that the "Knights of the Golden Circle" were to have taken 
an important part in a general uprising, but for some unknown 
cause failed to do so. 

For the last six weeks Colonel Hill, commander of the forces 
at Johnson's Island, says the Register, has been daily receiving 
warnings to the effect that a Copperhead-Canadian-Rebel refugee 
raid was maturing to surprise the forces and release the Confed- 
erate prisoners confined on the Island. The plans of Colonel Hill 
to frustrate their designs were too well conceived and deeply laid 
to admit of a surprise. During the afternoon of day before yes- 
terday Colonel Hill received a dispatch from Detroit to the eft"ect 
that a portion of the conspirators would arrive in this city on the 
afternoon trains. After notifying Captain Carter, commander of 



2o8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

the J\lichigan, of the dispatch, he immediately ordered a posse of 
men aboard the Princess, to proceed to this city and take charge 
of the trains on their arrival. 

Aboard the Sandusky. Dayton, and Cincinnati train were a 
large number of men, most of whom left the train before its ar- 
rival at the depot and proceeded to scatter about the city. The 
larger portion were finally overhauled and found to be laborers 
and mechanics rendezvousing at this point to proceed to Nashville, 
where they were to be employed by the government. 

The passengers on the Mansfield train were placed under arrest 
long before they reached this city ; but notwithstanding, a crowd of 
men eluded the vigilance of the conductor and escaped at a station 
some four miles from the city. 

A suspicious character. C. H. Cole, who has been boarding at 
the West House for a considerable time, was then arrested by 
Captain Steiner, provost marshal of the district. Since his ar- 
rival in this city Cole has been lavish in his expenditures, feasting 
and drinking with several of the military officials. Frequent 
suppers were given, at which no expense was spared, and all 
bills were settled with gold. 

After his arrest a search revealed a number of letters and docu- 
ments giving the particulars of the plot to capture the steamers, 
sink the Michigan, free the prisoners on the Island, and destroy 
Sandusky. The whole scheme was to have been put in operation 
yesterday. Revelations made by Cole led to the arrest of Abraham 
Strain, John H. Williams, Dr. E. Stanley, John M. Brown, and a 
Jew named Rosenthal, all residents and prominent Copperheads 
of this city. The Sandusky conspirators were to go to the camp 
of the Cleveland Artillery, spike the guns and use other means to 
make resistance useless. A party of Rebels were to take passage 
on the Philo Parsons at Detroit and capture her on the way down, 
with such other steamers as could be seized. The Michigan was 
lying at anchor ofif Johnson's Island, and the purpose was to steal 
quietly down on her with the Philo Parsons, then suddenly run 
into her amidships, cutting her down and sinking her. 

The Confederate prisoners were then to rise and, with the 
assistance of their Canadian reenforcements and the local Copper- 
heads, overpower the guard, make their escape, commit all the 
damage possible, and either open a campaign in Ohio, with the 
help of the "Sons of Liberty," or else escape to Canada. 

After the return of the Michigan an accomplice of Cole's 
named John Robinson was arrested, and, with Cole, is confined on 
board the Michigan, whilst the Sandusky conspirators are con- 
fined on Johnson's Island. Cole is a young man, rather below 
the medium size, and from his financial transactions was strongly 
suspected of being engaged in the interests of the rebellion soon 
after his arrival, and closely watched. 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 209 

During his stay in this city he became noted as a drunken 
loafer, and was only countenanced in accordance with the money 
spent. He was a tierce McClellan man. 

The steamer Island Queen left Kelley's Island about 6 p. m. yes- 
terday with about thirty-five members of Company K, One Hun- 
dred and Thirtieth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, for Toledo, to 
be mustered out of the service, together with a lot of passengers. 
They put in at Middle Bass Island to wood. The steamer Philo 
Parsons was lying across the end of the dock, when the lines of 
the Queen were unsuspectingly fastened alongside of the Parsons. 

She was then boarded, by about thirty Confederates, who had 
captured the Parsons, and, with revolvers and hatchets in hand, 
drove the passengers and crew of the Island Queen into the hold 
of the Parsons, not even excepting Captain Orr, who was after- 
wards called up and, it is supposed, made to pilot the Parsons. 
The engineer of the Parsons was shot at while engaged at his 
post at the engine, and was afterwards seen bleeding. Hov/ se- 
verely he was wounded,, or what became of him, is not known. 
As a matter of course, all were surprised and could do nothing 
but surrender, which they did with the best grace they could com- 
mand. Some of the passengers, not obeying the orders of the 
raiders as quickly as they desired, were roughly used, the raiders 
hitting them on the heads with hatchets and revolvers. 

After throwing some thirty cords of wood aboard the Parsons, 
the passengers were ordered from her hold, some of whom were 
paroled, while others were not molested except being examined 
for arms. The soldiers of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Reg- 
iment were afterwards called out and more closely scrutinized, but 
the pirates were in too big a hurry to do their work thoroughly. 

About half past five a.m. the gunboat Michigan hove in sight 
of Kelley's Island, where were a number of passengers who had 
been released by the raiders. The islanders, not knowing wheth- 
er she was in possession of her own officers and crew or the raid- 
ers, were not a little alarmed ; but soon their fears were dispelled, 
as the form of the jolly old commander. Captain Carter, was ob- 
served upon her deck. 

The Michigan then proceeded to search for the captured boats, 
steering for Middle Bass Island. \\'hen about halfway between 
the two islands she met a sailboat having on board Mr. Ashley, 
clerk of the steamer Philo Parsons, and a number of other cap- 
tives, headed for Sandusky. These gentlemen informed the com- 
mander of the ^Michigan that the Parsons had been seen about 
two o'clock in the morning steaming in the direction of Maiden. 
The gunboat then proceeded on her cruise in the direction' of Mid- 
dle Bass Island, where she was heartily cheered by the remaining 
captives on shore. She then started for the mouth of the Detroit 
River, where, falling in with vessels and tugs, she was informed 
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2IO THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

that the Parsons had not been seen in that vicinity. The Mich- 
igan then put about and steamed down the lake, inquiring of ves- 
sels for the missing steamer, without effect. She then steamed 
for Middle Bass again, and shortly after leaving there discovered 
the Island Queen on Chucanola Reef. The vessel was sunk in 
seven feet of water. 

The Island Queen is a small sidewheel steamer, running be- 
tween Sandusky and the Islands, and is owned by the Messrs. 
Kelley, of Kelley's Island, and commanded by Captain Orr, of this 
city. 

The Philo Parsons is a steamer of similar build, perhaps a 
third larger than the Queen, and for the past season has been run- 
ning between this port and Detroit. The Parsons is command- 
ed by Captain Atwood. The destruction of these vessels is a 
severe blow to the residents of the islands, as they almost solely 
depended upon them for transportation of their freight and pas- 
sengers to and from the islands. 

Captain Orr gave the following account of the capture of his 
boat: 

"The Philo Parsons left Detroit at 8:30 Monday morning, with 
a number of passengers on board. One of the men said to the 
clerk that he had some friends at Windsor, Canada, whom they 
wished to have taken on. Five came on board at this place. At 
Maiden, Canada, they took on more men, who brought with them 
an old trunk tied with ropes. From there they went to Kelley's 
Island, where several more got on. About a mile after leaving 
Kelley's Island the men opened the old trunk and took out arms, 
which they concealed under the long-tailed coats, and then sta- 
tioned themselves in squads at the commanding parts of the ves- 
sel. At a signal a squad went to the pilothouse, and holding pis- 
tols at the head of the wheelman, told him that if he did not direct 
the boat as they wished they would blow his brains out. The 
wheelman did as they ordered — there was nothing else to do — and 
they steamed down the lake, in full view of Sandusky, for a short 
time. 

"They then turned up the lake and stopped at Middle Bass 
Island. Here she ran alongside of the Island Queen, made fast, 
got put a gangplank, and began unloading freight. 

"About this time six or seven of the pirates got on board the 
Island Queen from the Parsons's aft, and perhaps twenty got on 
forward, and presently notified all on board that they were pris- 
oners. There was quite a crowd at the wharf, and the crowd 
was augmented by the passengers the raiders had ordered ofif the 
boat. Presently they fired several shots indiscriminately into the 
crowd. Mr. Lorenzo Miller, of Put-in-Bay, was seriously in- 
jured. 

"After this they went to the engine room and ordered the en- 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 211 

gineer to come out; but he not being quite so prompt as they 
wished, they fired upon him, one of the balls taking effect in his 
right cheek. He was the only one of the boat seriously injured 
by the shots. They then put most of us into the hold of the 
Island Queen. A short time afterwards they sent for me to come 
out on deck, and asked me if many strangers came into Sandusky 
that afternoon. They wanted to know if there was any excite- 
ment in the city, and if it was known that the steamer they were 
in possession of was coming. Then they took me into the cabin, 
where the ladies were, together with several men. The ladies and 
children were given permission to go ashore, after exacting a 
promise that they would not give any information of what they 
knew to any one for twenty-four hours. 

"Pale with fear, the ladies promised, and were permitted to go 
ashore at Middle Bass. 

"They then ordered the soldiers who came on board at Kelley's 
Island to come upon the deck, and made them swear they would 
not take up arms against the Confederacy until legally exchanged, 
after which they were permitted to go. The citizens were forced 
to take an oath not to divulge what they knew until twenty- four 
hours had elapsed. They were then permitted to go ashore. 
Having cleared the vessel, they got the stern line out, lashed the 
boats together, got under way, and stood out for Sandusky. 
When between Kelley's Island and Put-in-Bay, they inquired of 
one of their men who had been sent into the hold if he^ had scut- 
tled the Island Queen. He said that he had knocked off the head 
of a pipe so as to let in a stream of water four inches in diameter. 
They then lowered the yawl and took it in tow of the Island 
Queen, leaving the Parsons to her fate. 

"\Miile under way they talked of taking the Michigan, but 
doubted their ability to do it. One or two of the men objected 
to 'going into a slaughterhouse," as they put it. When opposite 
Kelley's Island they forced me to go into the fire hold, and while 
there they consulted and waited, apparently, for signals. 

"Then discretion overcame their valor, as they put off up the 
lake and steamed up into the Detroit Riyer, while I, with nine 
others, was put off at Fighting Island, some seven miles from 
Detroit. They asked me who I was going to vote for, and I 
told them Lincoln. They then asked what McClellan's chances 
were, and I told them very small indeed. They replied : T reckon 
they are rather slim,' " 

The clerk of the Philo Parsons gave the following version of 
that boat's capture : 

"The steamer Philo Parsons left Detroit on the morning of 
September 19, at 8 a.m., with about forty passengers. Imme- 
diately after leaving Detroit a young man, whom I had frequently 
seen before, came to me, and, calling: me bv name, said there were 



2 12 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

four passengers who wanted to take the boat at Sandwich, a 
small town on the Canadian side of the river, some three miles 
below Detroit. I reported the same to Captain Atwood. and he 
stopped and took them on. They said when they came on 
board that they were taking a little pleasure trip, and intended 
to stop at Kelley's Island. All the baggage they had was a 
small hand satchel. 

"At Maiden, twenty miles down the river,, on the Canadian 
side, where the boat stops regularly, about twenty more came 
on board and took passage for Sandusky. As it has been quite 
common of late to take on that number of passengers nearly 
every trip at this point, no attention was paid to them. 

"The majority of those who took the boat at Maiden were 
from Ohio, who, getting starved out in Canada, were returning 
home. I at once set this party down as a lot of the same kind. 
A large, old-fashioned trunk with ropes constituted the baggage 
of the party. Everything went off quietly during the day. The 
boat stopped at a number of the islands, taking on quite a number 
of passengers. Captain Atwood stepped off the boat at North 
Bass Island, where he resides. 

"Shortly after leaving Kelley's Island, and between the island 
and Sandusky, I was standing in front of my office, when four 
of ^the party came up to me and, drawing revolvers, leveled 
them at me and said that if I ofifered any resistance I was a dead 
man. At the same time the old black trunk flew open, and in 
less time than it takes to tell it the whole gang of about thirty- 
five were armed to the teeth with revolvers, hatchets, etc. I then 
told them that they apparently had the strongest party, and 
guessed I should have to surrender. They then stationed two 
men to watch me, the remainder rushing into the cabin threat- 
ening to shoot any one offering resistance. There was a large 
number of ladies aboard, who were badly frightened. 

"The boat was then headed down the lake for about an hour, 
and then turned and run to Middle Bass Island. While lying 
there the steamer Island Queen came slowly alongside and was 
instantly seized. Quite a number of shots were fired and quite 
a number struck with hatchets, but I think no one was killed. 
The passengers of both boats were put on shore, and a portion 
of the baggage. 

"After taking what money I had,, they requested me to go 
ashore. They permitted me to take my private property, but 
my books and papers, belonging to the boat, they kept. The 
boats were then started out in the lake, the Parsons towing the 
Queen a short distance into the lake, and then letting her go 
adrift. After putting oft' the passengers at Middle Bass, the Philo 
Parsons headed for Sandusky, and was gone about four hours. 
She afterwards returned under a full head of steam, and after 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 313 

passing Middle Bass headed for Maiden and steered in that direc- 
tion as long as we could see her. 

"The crews of both boats were retained and made to do the 
bidding of the parties in possession. The captain of the gang 
informed me he would place myself and passengers where we 
could give no information until morning, and before that time 
their work would be completed. He said it was their intention 
to run to the mouth of Sandusky Bay; and if they received the 
proper signals, they would run in, attack the United States 
steamer Michigan, lying off Johnson's Island, and then release 
their friends imprisoned at that place. 

W. O. Ashley." 

The name of Cole is mentioned in the Register's account of 
the exciting event, but the name of the daring man who, in reality, 
made the only successful movement in the entire affair is not 
mentioned. At that time, too, they did not know who Cole 
was, but that develops later. The man who captured the Pliilo 
Parsons was a Virginian named John Yates Beall, sometimes 
mentioned as Bell, and who was subsequently arrested and tried 
in Canada, as was another raider by the name of Burleigh. 

The history of Erie County, Ohio, gives an account of the 
iricident which follows : 

The plan of rescue that led to the open attempt on the 19th of 
September was conceived by John Yates Beall. He was to 
conduct the operation from the Canadian side, while Major Cole 
was intrusted with the work of gaining the confidence of the 
officers at Sandusky, and particularly the officers of the gunboat 
Michigan, that lay in the waters of Sandusky Bay, in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the prison. The Michigan was the only gov- 
ernment boat then acting in defense of the island, and, with an 
ample crew of marines and her eighteen guns, could repel any 
attack that might be made — especially when acting in conjunc- 
tion with the guard force of infantry and artillery on the island 
and Sandusky. 

The first step, therefore, in accomplishing the main under- 
taking was to obtain control of the gunboat, and this was the 
part of the programme assigned to Cole. He is well remembered 
by many of the present residents of Sandusky as an 'active, 
energetic fellow, possessing education beyond the average ; a fine 
conversationalist and a royal entertainer. He made prodigal 
use of his money, with which commodity he appeared to be 
abundantly supplied. He dined and wined the officers of the 
Michigan, and sought to ingratiate himself wholly in their 



2 14 ^^^ STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

favor. But in the chivalrous acts of this daring young fellow 
he rather overdid the .matter, and Yankee cunning proved more 
than a match for his arts. When he thought he had the officers 
just about where he wanted them, the picture reversed, and the 
officers had Cole where they wanted him, and he fell a prisoner 
into their hands. 

Cole arranged a wine party at the time that affairs were ex- 
pected to culminate, and the liquor was heavily drugged ; but the 
officers never partook of his bounty, and instead of their falling 
victims to his plans he himself fell into theirs. 

The Sandusky Register has this to say of the after effects of 
the raid : 

The plans of Beall were equally well formed, but, through the 
failure of Cole, were also futile so far as carrying out the main 
effort was concerned. Beall, with a few rough characters, took 
passage on the steamer Philo Parsons as that boat was making 
her passage between Detroit, the Islands, and Sandusky. At 
Maiden twenty other men also came on board. 

After passing from the landing place at Kelley's Island the 
men approached the clerk of the boat, who, in the absence of the 
captain, seems to have been in command, and, with revolvers 
pointed at him, demanded a surrender. Without much resistance 
the steamer passed into the charge of the piratical crew, and 
was turned back toward Middle Bass Island, where a landing 
was made. 

About this time the Island Queen reached the dock at Middle 
Bass, but no sooner had she touched then she was boarded and 
captured ; not, however, without stout resistance from her com- 
manding officer and the engineer, both of whom were overpow- 
ered, the latter being shot in the face. On board the Island Queen 
was a party of about one hundred discharged soldiers returning 
home ; but, being without arms, they were powerless in the face of 
a score or more of heavily loaded revolvers in the hands of 
determined, desperate men. 

The Queen was scuttled and sent adrift, after which the prow 
of the Parsons was turned toward Sandusky Bay. After cruis- 
ing about for a long time, anxiously watching for the signal from 
the land supposed to have been successfuly organized by Cole, 
Beall wanted to make the attempt at rescue without the assistance 
of Cole's cooperating force ; but knowing the power of the 
Michigan's guns, and fearful of the result, Beall's desperate crew 
weakened and declined to take the chances. 

Disheartened and discouraged, the daring leader reluctantly 
put about and made for Canada, where the steamer was aban- 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 215 

(loned and her former crew released from temporary imprison- 
ment. This was the only open attempt made to effect the escape 
of the officers confined on Johnson's Island, and it proved a 
failure. What would have been the result had Cole's effort 
been successful is wholly a matter of speculation. Several promi- 
nent citizens of Sandusky were arrested, charged with complicity 
in the attempt. They were temporarily confined on the Island, 
but were afterwards released. 

Beall seems to have been less fortunate. He was captured 
near Suspension Bridge, N. Y., and taken to New York City 
and confined on Governor's Island. He was charged before 
a military court with the seizure of the steamer Philo Parsons, 
also the Island Queen, and of being a spy in the Confederate 
service. 

He was also charged with attempting to wreck an express 
train between Buffalo and Dunkirk, for the purpose of robbery. 
He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The day of 
the execution was fixed for February 18, 1865, but President 
Lincoln granted him a respite of six days, that his mother might 
see him once more. 

Prior to the attempt to release the prisoners on Johnson's 
Island, Beall was a captain of a company of Virginians under 
Gen. Stonewall Jackson. He possessed at the time of the break- 
ing out of the war a valuable plantation, and was a young man 
of large means and great promise. 

The Confederate Veteran, in the issue of July. 1900. has this 
to say upon the event : 

Jacob Thompson, formerly Secretary of the Interior under 
Buchanan, ]\Iaj. C. H. Cole, of the Fifth Tennessee Confederate 
Regiment, Maj. Thomas C. Hinds, of Bowling Green, Ky., and 
several others hatched a conspiracy for the liberation of all the 
Confederate prisoners in the North. 

Their object was to capture the man-of-war Michigan, which 
was at that time on Lake Erie, seize the Philo Parsons — ^which 
was done — and release the twenty-five thousand Confederates, of 
whom four thousand were at Johnson's Island, eight thousand 
at Camp Douglas, nine thousand at Camp Chase, and four 
thousand at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. Then, with the aid 
of ten thousand Confederate and Southern sympathizers whO' 
visited in the North, and who had gathered at various points, 
to aid in the consummation of the plot, they hoped to strike a fatal 
blow at the Union at a time when, according to the calcula- 
tions of the conspirators, General Early was to lay siege toi 
Washington, and thus make it impossible for the Federal gov- 
ernment to send troops to the points to be attacked. 



2i6 THE STORY or CAMP CHASE. 

A part of tlio pioi^rainnio was carried out. Majnr L"olc, who 
had been deputized to capture the Philo 1 'arsons, did so, and 
sailed away with her. T.ut the conspiracy to seize the Michigan 
and Hbcrate the Confederates failed, and (."ole and. his men were 
captured. Their betrayer was Colonel Johnson, of Kentucky, 
a prisoner on Johnson's Island, who, seized with remorse for 
the act. comniitlod suicide slmrlly afterwards. 

riie / cfcraii is e\idenlly in error as to the part L\)le ])layed. 
Cole was a prisoner at the time P>eall was cruisin?;- about Sandusky 
Bay. waitiiii^- for a sii^nal from (."ole that he was in possession of 
the Michii^an. 

The statement that the ])lol was betrayed by Colonel Johnson 
is something- the Northern writers seemed tt^ know nothing about, 
as no mention is made of it in any of the stories of the time or in 
the reports of the Federal officers. Nor has it been mentioned in 
subsequent Northern acccnmts of the episode. The T'ctcmii fur- 
ther says : 

Cole was -tried and sentenced to be shot, the execution to take 
place on Johnson's Island ; but influential friends interceded for 
him, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He 
\vas taken to Fort Lafayette in 1865, remaining there one year; 
was then pardoned, and is now living on a ranch in Texas. 
Thus ended one of the most gigantic conspiracies of the war 
for the overthrow of the North. 

In following the subsequent history of the great cons[)iracv 
many remarkable statements concerning the capture of the Philo 
Parsons were found. The Buffalo Coniiiii'rcial Advertiser of 
November 27, 1864, sa}s: 

The examination of G. B. Burleigh, alias Captain Beall, the 
Lake Erie pirate, was commenced before Recorder Duggan, at 
Toronto, ^^'ednesday. Mr. R. A. Harrison appeared for the 
Crown, and Mr. M. C. Cameron defended the prisoner. The 
only witness examined was a young woman named Gertrude 
Titus, of Detroit, who was a passenger on the Philo Parsons 
at the time of her seizure by the armed men. 

She fully identified the prisoner, anil testitied that he was the 
most conspicuous and active of those who seized the Parsons and 
perpetrated the outrages on board. Mr. Cameron contended 
that no case had been made out, or at least the prisoner could 
not be claimed, as his case did not come under the Ashburton 
treaty. The Queen's proclamation recognized the Confederates 
as belligerents, and therefore it was no act of piracy or robbery 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 217 

for any body of men to act as these men had. They were right, 
according to the laws of nations, in liberating the prisoners at 
Johnson's Island if they had the power to do so. 

The Sandusky Register^ in an editorial on December 6, 1864, 
says : 

G. B. Burleigh, who was charged with being in recent acts 
of piracy on Lake Erie, and was on trial for the same at Toronto, 
was discharged and immediately arrested on a charge of robbery, 
preferred by W. O. Ashley, clerk of the Philo Parsons, and 
awaits trial for that offense. 

On the following day the same paper contained the following: 

Evidence is still accumulating to prove that the Canadian 
Rebels had formed an extensive plot, not only to release the 
prisoners on Johnson's Island, but to prey upon and destroy the 
commerce of the lakes. The Detroit Tribune, in giving the par- 
ticulars of the arrest of Burleigh, one of the pirates concerned 
in the seizure of the Philo Parsons and Island Queen, says: 

"As soon as Burlei^'s friends became aware of his arrest, they 
sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the Court of Queen's 
Bench, which was made returnable on Tuesday at twelve o'clock. 
As he had previously been committed by an alderman of the 
city, who had no authority in the premises, his discharge from 
arrest was a foregone conclusion. Mr. Brown, Assistant United 
States District Attorney, arrived in Toronto about ten o'clock on 
Tuesday, and upon learning the turn matters were likely to take, 
at once had a warrant taken out before the recorder and placed 
in the hands of an officer. 

"Before this could be accomplished, Burleigh had been dis- 
charged. Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, 
his Rebel friends, who were present in large numbers, stood 
ready to congratulate him on his release, and thus detained him 
for probably half an hour. This circumstance worked in Mr. 
Brown's favor, and the regular warrant was served on the 
Rebel chief ere the echoes of his friends' cheers had died away. 

"Instantly signs of disturbance were manifested by the crowd. 
The game was pronounced a Yankee trick, but Burleigh's counsel 
prevailed upon him to quietly submit to the course of the law, 
and he was taken back to jail, followed by a large concourse of 
long-visaged Rebels. The Yankee trick did the job. The ex- 
amination that followed has been fully reported. 

"Burleigh is a young man about twenty-four years of age, of 
thickset, athletic build, apparently of Scotch origin, and boasts 
of having been an officer in the navy. Pie was not the leader 
of the pirates, but held a secondary command to Bell. He was, 



2i8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

however, the most officious, mahgnant, and insuhing of the gangr 
and if his wishes had been law, he would have been satisfied 
with nothing less than the destruction of the Philo Parsons and 
everything that came in his way. Indeed, Bell was once forced 
to put him under arrest for insubordination. His friends have 
retained for him the best criminal lawyer in Canada, and he will 
undoubtedly make a desperate fight. They are very confident 
of his final release, and it is not at all improbable that amid the 
technicalities of British law, and with the sympathies of the 
Canadian people, not to say of the Canadian judges, in his 
favor, he may manage to escape. 

"The case cannot finally be heard upon its merits until more 
witnesses are procured. It was once hoped, that he might be 
brought to Windsor for examination, but there seems to be 
no law authorizing the transfer. 

"When first arrested, Burleigh told the officer that he wished 
to God his arrest had been postponed one week, as he had an 
important job on hand. During a conversation with him he 
indirectly revealed the fact that he had been engaged in purchas- 
ing an armament for the propellor Georgian, which steamer 
recently passed this city on her way to Collingwood. The arma- 
ment was to have been put on at or near Port Sarnia, but the 
vigilance of our government officers in making the arrest doubt- 
less frustrated the movement. It may, however, give the key to 
the combined Rebel plot, and will doubtless be acted on as such." 

There was yet another story of the Canadian conspiracy, and 
this was issued by a Dr. Ayer in pamphlet form. As the story 
is without doubt long since out of print, the review of the sketch, 
ill the editorial columns of the Sandusky Register of May 8, 1865,, 
together with the editorial comment, is here presented : 

We have received from the author, I. Winslow Ayer, M.D., 
a pamphlet bearing the title of "The Great Northwestern Con- 
spiracy." It takes in the entire plot to burn the Northern cities, 
release the prisoners from Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, and 
other places, as well as the piracy of the lakes and the trial of 
the conspirators. 

After speaking generally of the Rebels in Canada, and the 
manner of their support, the author proceeds to relate the his- 
tory of what has been known as the "Lake Erie Conspiracy" and 
the Philo Parsons raid. 

He says that it is given just as he received it from the lips of 
two Confederate officers who were engaged, in the affair, and 
who commanded detachments on board the Philo Parsons. 
Although familiar with the transaction, there are some things- 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 219. 

relating to the affair that are new to us, and some that are devoid 
of truth, and which do great injustice to certain parties spoken of. 

The plot was matured, if not originated, at the Chicago Demo- 
cratic Convention, at which point they were to release the pris- 
oners at Camp Douglas, and at the same time of the assault 
on Camp Douglas a simultaneous effort was to be made to cap- 
ture the United States war steamer Michigan, carrying eighteen 
guns, and at that time anchored in Sandusky Bay. The prisoners 
of these camps being released, and the steamer Michigan in their 
hands, they expected to inaugurate an army that would terrify 
the Northern people and really overturn the government at 
Washington. 

With the steamer Michigan they expected to destroy the 
commerce of the lakes, effectually closing their ports, and laying 
all the large towns and cities under contribution, exacting large 
sums of money through fear of bombardment. Here we shall 
make a few quotations from the book, using its exact language : 

"The plan of the conspirators to get possession of the Michi- 
gan was by bribery and surprise. 

"Mr. Thompson, in his efforts to seize the vessel, secured 
the services of a man named Cole, of Sandusky, Ohio, who had 
been a citizen of Virginia, and who still retained his sympathies 
for the rebellion and took an active part in aiding it whenever he 
had an opportunity, and a woman, said to have been his paramour, 
who carried dispatches backward and forward between the par- 
ties. This man Cole seems to have been the most wily con- 
spirator of them all, and played his infamous part with most 
adroit shrewdness. The defeat of the whole scheme was not 
owing to any blunder of his, but rather the blunder of those 
who employed and furnished him the means. 

"Having been well supplied with money by Mr. Thompson, 
and no limit put to his expenses, he began his work with a will. 
He seems to have begun by getting generally well acquainted 
with the affairs of the vessel, by feasting the officers and now 
and, then lending them money, or accommodating them in some 
other way, until he had won the confidence of all those in com- 
mand of the steamer, as well as those in charge of Johnson's 
Island. After a time he found out those who were most vul- 
nerable on the money question, and those whom he did not dare 
approach upon the subject. Of the latter class, there is one 
mentioned in particular l3y the Rebels, whose suspicions they did 
not dare to arouse, and which they made every attempt to lull. 
This was an officer named Eddy, from Massachusetts. He then 
bribed the chief engineer, who they said had agreed for twenty 
thousand dollars in gold to get the machinery out of order and 
otherwise aid in the vessel's capture, and one or two others. 



220 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

"Of the remainder of the officers of the Michigan, they thought 
their well-known Democratic faith and sympathy with the rebel- 
lion would prevent them from seeing or knowing too much 
until too late to avoid the disaster. Of these last the conspirators 
did not seem to entertain the least fear, some of them being 
Southern men by birth, and at most but passive in their fidelity 
to the government. As the writer has stated before, the attempt 
on the steamer Michigan was to be simultaneous with that at 
Chicago, and while the Rebels and their friends were assembling 
in Chicago they were also gathering in Sandusky City for the 
capture of the Michigan. The actual number of conspirators 
in Sandusky at that time was not known to the writer, nor the 
details of their plans; but let it suffice to say that they were 
there armed and ready. 

"When the time for action arrived, however, the engineer 
and his accomplices were not to be found ; and after waiting for 
nearly two days the Rebel portion of the conspirators, with the 
exception of Captain Beall, returned to Canada. On their return 
they said that the prisoners whom they had bribed were afraid 
to carry out their infamous and hazardous part of the contract. 

"The Rebels were in great fear lest something had happened 
that would put an end forever to their hopes in regard to the 
steamer, but in a few days after this the nonappearance of the 
engineer and friends was duly explained, and the alarm caused 
by it quieted. xAnd another time was set for the attempt. 

"The day being set once more, preparations were again made 
to capture the vessel, and this time occurred what was called the 
'Lake Erie piracy.' Nearly everything connected with this event 
was so disgraceful to the United States service that, although 
the government hastened to remove all the reprehensible officers 
and retain those who deserved well of their country, yet seem to 
have endeavored to keep some of the facts connected with it from 
being made public. 

"About one week before the time for the second attempt 
arrived. Captain Beall returned from Sandusky to Windsor, Can- 
ada, and announced that all was ready for the capture, and 
immediately telegraphed to Jacob Thompson, who was at the 
Queen's Hotel, in Toronto. Thompson at once answered that 
he would come to Windsor that night, and desired not to be 
recognized. That evening he arrived at Windsor, and, without 
apparently being known, got into a carriage waiting and was 
taken to the residence of Colonel Steele, where he was expected. 
During this week all the men who were to participate in the 
aflfair were notified, and this time the services of some of the 
men who had been to Chicago during the convention were 
called into requisition. The Confederate officers could be seen 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. . 221 

running about here and there to the different boarding houses 
where the men were stopping, carrying ominous-looking carpet- 
bags, distributing from them pistols, ammunition, and other things 
deemed necessary for the undertaking, which was to be made 
on the night of the following Monday. 

"Most active in these efforts to incite these men to deeds of 
desperation wxre Colonel Steele and Jake Thompson, or, when 
he used his assumed name. Colonel Carson. 

"Cole was to give a champagne supper on board the Michigan 
that evening to the officers, and was to be there himself with 
a party of Confederates, who had also become well acquainted 
with the officers, and who were invited, at the request of Cole, 
to join in the festivities of the occasion. It was intended for 
the Philo Parsons to reach hailing distance of the Michigan 
about eleven or twelve o'clock that night, in order that by this 
time as many of the crew as possible, through the champagne, 
would be incapable of rendering any assistance. When the Par- 
sons was hailed by the watch on board the steamer. Cole and his 
associates were at once to take possession of a gun, which would 
sweep the whole decks and prevent that portion of the crew who 
were not rendered incapable by drink from attempting any 
effectual resistance to the conspirators boarding her from the 
Parsons. 

"Once in possession of this vessel of war, the prisoners on 
the island were to be immediately released, landed at Sandusky, 
when the 'Sons of Liberty' and. other secret societies were to 
seize the opportunity of rising up and asserting their peculiar 
doctrines, under protection of this powerful man-of-war. The 
same general plan was to be pursued at Cleveland and other 
places along the coast, where their secret societies were in full 
blast. 

"The conspirators expected to exact enormous tribute of the 
loyal portions of these commimities to save their property from 
the dangers of bombardment. This expected tribute of ten mil- 
lions of dollars — to be divided equally among them — from the 
border cities was the greatest inducement held out to their asso- 
ciates by the Rebel leaders before leaving Canada, in order to 
excite their cupidity and zeal and to influence their minds to 
such a pitch that they would render a strict obedience to their 
officers, and hesitate at no act of violence." 

The whole of the programme was carried out, even to the 
chartering of the little Scotia. But on arriving at Kelley's 
Island, and receiving no message from Cole, the conspirators 
were in a dilemma. The suspicions of the passengers had be- 
come aroused, and a remark which fell from a passenger, that he 
would have them all arrested at Sandusky, created great conster- 



322 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

nation among the conspirators. They at once resolved to take 
possession of the boat, go back to Put-in-Bay, get a supply of 
wood, and put off the passengers — all of which was accomplished. 
After dark that night they ran down into Sandusky Bay ; but, 
failing to see the signals agreed upon, and after waiting a short 
time, again returned to the open lake, convinced by this time 
that something had happened to their friends at Sandusky. 

Captain Beall, seeing his project had failed, determined to 
cruise on the lake as long as possible, burning and destroying 
all he could. His men feared the consequences, and insisted 
upon going back to Canada. Beall said that if it had not been for 
the mutinous scoundrels composing his crew he could have run the 
lakes for two weeks, burning and destroying all the vessels 
he met with, before the Yankees could have made him land. 

The first attempt spoken of, and the band of desperate men 
who were among us for some days, is news to all the loyal portion 
of this city, and that they were feasted and toasted by any por- 
tion of our loyal Union inhabitants, of whom most of our business 
men are made up, we do not believe for a moment. We have no 
doubt that Captain Beall and his conspirators were here, and 
probably feasted and toasted, but not by our prominent citizens 
and business men. 

The editorial w^as as follows : 

When the people of the Confederate States inaugurated their 
rebellion against the Union, they counted to a certainty upon the 
alliance of Great Britain. All the testimony we have confirms 
this fact. It was no use arguing with them ; no use trying to 
persuade them that England would not join in the melee. They 
had but one answer: "Cotton is king." There were no "ifs" 
about it; she must go to war; she had no other resources. Bit- 
terly disappointed have they been, we all know. With the pros- 
pect that the Confederacy will soon be numbered amongst the 
things that were, they are ready to adopt any means, however 
desperate, at all likely to better their situation. In this condition 
the hopes they once indulged in revive again. They counted 
on the alliance of England; can they not force it? The prize 
is worth a struggle, much sacrifice, even obloquy and shame. 

"Necessity knows no law ;" they must get some aid or perish. 
These considerations have doubtless caused the Confederate Gov- 
erment to instigate and to authorize the raids made from Canada 
upon the United States. The captors of the Chesapeake pleaded 
their commission. The plunderers of St. Albans made the same 
excuse. The man Burleigh, accused of robbery on board the 
Philo Parsons, follows suit. Munitions of war, too, have been 
purchased in this province, and at least one attempt made to 



THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. 223 

'export them, evidently for the purpose of supplying Rebel ma- 
rauders with means of ofifense. 

Doubtless, too, had these men been arrested, they would have 
pleaded Richmond-given authority. Upon these facts, then, if 
they stood alone, should we not be warranted in saying that the 
government was seeking to involve Britain and the United 
States in war? 

But they do not stand alone. Yesterday the telegraph stated 
that a raid was apprehended on Detroit. Perhaps most readers 
passed it over as a mere invention. Such, we are sorry to say, 
.is not the case. We do not know that Detroit is more menaced 
than any other lake port ; but that a plot is on foot to make an 
attack on our neighbors of Idrger proportion than has hitherto 
been attempted, there is little doubt. Information has been re- 
ceived by our government to the effect that a regiment of Con- 
federate soldiers have been detailed to find their way to Canada 
as best they may. Temporarily disbanded, they are to reach 
here by ones and twos; but they will know where and how to 
unite, and if the chance be given them they will strike a blow 
somewhere on the frontier. 

Fortunately, having received timely warning, our government 
will make their task more difficult than they perhaps apprehend ; 
but still the amount of success which has attended previous at- 
tempts is sufficient to show that their project is far from being im- 
practicable. It is abundantly time that we were thoroughly upon 
our guard. The American people — and no one can be surprised 
at it — are much exercised at the depredations already committed. 

They are armed and prepared. If an attack be made on any 
lake city, the probability is that the people will follow the ma- 
rauders across the frontier, and the consequences that will ensue 
it is easy to conceive. The wish of the South for war between 
England and the North would, it is feared, be realized speedily. 
It is not to be expected that, under such circumstances, the pur- 
suing force would conduct itself with the calmness of a judge on 
the bench. Wrongs would be committed on our fellow-subjects. 
Resistance would certainly be made, mutual recrimination and 
l)itter feelings would arise, both parties would refuse redress, 
and war would follow. At any rate, we defy any one to imagine 
■circumstances better calculated to bring about such a consum- 
mation. 

It is currently reported, too, in the larger cities that these 
Southerners count upon the aid of the Fenians, both here and 
in the States. What truth there is in this we do not profess 
to know ; but, at any rate, the object of both parties is identical. 
The Fenians see in war between the Republic and Great Britain 
■a chance for what they call the "regeneration of Ireland." In 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



other words, they think they would be able to convert the "Gem 
of the Sea" into a huge Donnybrook fair. The Southerner see's 
in such a war an assurance of the independence of his own 
country. 

Their interests being identical, there is no reason why they 
should not coalesce. We do not know that people generally are 
aware of the length to which the law of nations allows a country 
to go for the purpose of self-preservation. If these raids con- 
tinue, we shall not only render it probable that Canada may be 
invaded by United States troops, but we shall actually give the 
United States a right so to do. It is to no purpose, we may 
allege, that we have done all we can to stop the raids. Should 
they be made, the fact will be proof either that we had not done 
all we might or that we are incapable of preserving our neutral- 
ity — either way giving the United States a very good plea ta 
justify pursuit of their foes into our territory. — Toronto Glohe^ 



CHAPTER XVII. 

A Thrilling Escape. 

P-risoners Plan to Escape — Maj. Winston, of North Carolina, Maj. Stokes, 
of Virginia, Capt. McConnell, of Kentucky, and Capts. Robinson, Davis, 
and Stokes, of Virginia, Scale the Wall — The Thermometer Thirty- 
Three Degrees below Zero and the Wind Blowing a Gale — Capt. 
Stokes Recaptured— Making a Raid on a Farmer's Stable — A Troubled 
Dutchman — No Sleep for Sixty Hours — Going through Toledo, Ohio — 
Breaking through the Ice — Safe under the British Flag. 

There was told in the Southern Magazine for October, 1872, 
the story of a daring escape from Johnson's Island that, from its 
intense interest and the long time since it was first related, is here 
reproduced. The author was permitted to get this story through 
the courtesy of Capt. James Dinkins, of New Orleans. The 
story, corroborated by the Sandusky Register of January 5, 1864. 
announced an escape of a few Confederate prisoners, and that 
the men would soon be caught, as they could be easily run 
down during the intensely cold weather that prevailed. 

There were a few beautiful days during the latter part of 
December, 1863, but on the 30th it began to rain and was 
warm. On the 31st a gale quickly veered from south to west, 
and then to the north. It rained, sleeted, and snowed all within 
an hour or two. Then it grew too cold to snow ; but the bitter 
north wind continued, and on the ist day of January, 1864, 
the thermometer in Ohio ranged from twenty-five to thirty-five 
degrees below zero. 

A guard at Camp Dennison, Ohio, was found frozen, and then 
the guards were relieved. In Tennessee men froze to death. 
How the guards endured such a night on Johnson's Island, with 
that terrible north wind howling down the lake, is inconceivable. 
The prisoners in the shanties or barracks, with blankets, nearly 
froze to death. 

It was on this awful night that six desperate men scaled the 
fence and crossed over to the mainland. The story by one of the 
survivors is as follows : 
15 



2 26 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Various efforts to bribe or persuade tbe sentinels were made, 
and some promised success ; but not a prisoner had ever made 
his escape in this way. On one occasion, indeed, a gallant briga- 
dier and four or five other officers did bribe a sentinel to let 
them over the walls ; but after they had handed over the gold 
watch and stipulated sum of money a line of armed soldiers rose 
up around them and marched them back to prison, too poor to 
attempt bribing again. A great variety of plans to escape was 
suggested and attempted. Probably the one most assiduously 
followed was that of tunneling, or "gophering," out. Five or 
six men would form a party to escape. After selecting a "block" 
as near to the wall as possible, they went to work under the floors, 
digging with case or pocket knives, and any other instrument 
that came to hand. As but one man could work at a time, this 
took many days. Several parties escaped from the prison, but 
were invariably captured on the Island, as they had no means 
of crossing the water. 

Such was the vigilance of the garrison and the nature of the 
difficulties to be overcome that every attempt at escape had 
failed up to January i, 1864, except in the case of one young 
officer (from Baltimore, I think he was), who, with others, was 
sent into the hold of the island steamer after straw for bunks, and 
instead of returning went to the bottom of the straw, and that 
night, when the. boat was lying at the wharf at Sandusky City, 
he cautiously crept forth and, unperceived, went away. 

New Year's day, 1864, was extremely cold, as stated, and that 
night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero. As the 
cold north winds beat with cruel violence against the thin weather- 
boarding, the shivering prisoners, whose blood was unused to 
such rigorous climate, felt peculiarly sad. "If we could only get 
out of prison, we could leave the island on the ice ; but it is too 
cold to live through the night in the open air." So thought many 
of the prisoners; but Major Stokes and Captains Stokes, Robin- 
son, and Davis, of Virginia, Captain IMcConnell, of Kentucky, 
and Major Winston, of North Carolina, determined to risk a 
desperate attempt that night. They came to the conclusion that 
the boldest was the best way to get out of prison — viz., by scaling 
the wall. So a rude ladder was extemporized by tying with 
clotheslines the legs of a bench across a board at intervals of 
about three feet, to answer for steps. Of course this was all 
done after dark to prevent suspicion. Our means of escape ready, 
we made such preparations as we could to protect ourselves 
against the cold weather. Our chums were exceedingly kind in 
furnishing all the citizens' clothing they had. The next thing 
was, who should go first. The lot fell to Major Winston. 

"The time has come ; an aftectionate good-by, kind friends," 
said Captain Davis and Major Winston, and promptly left the 



A THRILLING ESCAPE. 227 

room, each placing himself flat on the frozen ground at his 
end, of the ladder. Thus they dragged the ladder up the sewer 
to the corner of the huilding, thence across toward the "d-ead 
line." "Hold, Davis, lie low. Don't breathe ; the new relief is 
coming," said some one. They double-quick on the wall and 
relieve the sentinel just above us, and double-quick on, the new 
sentinel walking slowly to and fro on his beat. With great 
caution we crawd on over the "dead line;" reaching the wall, 
we stand our ladder against it. Davis holds while Winston 
mounts. Davis screams in whispers and jerks at fhe feet of 
Winston, who, fearing they w^ere discovered, stooped down and 
asked, "What is the matter?" "Get off my thumb!" The lad- 
der proved to be about four feet too short. It was no place to 
be making a noise climbing over, for the sentinel would be sure 
to detect it. However, Major Winston succeeded in pulling him- 
self over on the parapet as silently as possible ; and after looking 
to see if he was seen by either sentinel on his right or left, he 
let himself down, first on a brace that supported, the wall and then 
on a large stump, to the ground. Evading this line of sentinels 
(for there was one on the w^all and one on the ground on the 
outside), he sat behind a large oak some fifteen steps from the 
wall. Captain Davis soon joined him; then came Captain Rob- 
inson; next came Captain McConnell, who very nearly lighted 
on the head of the man on the ground, but fortunately was not 
discovered. Finally this sentinel on the ground saw Captain 
Stokes, but not until he had reached the ground, and took him 
to be a Federal soldier returning from a henroost expedition, 
and so failed to fire on him when he refused to halt. I forgot 
to mention that Captain Stokes, failing to get a sufficiency of 
clothing, declined to leave. So our party was all out, and to 
prevent discovery Captain White very kindly took the ladder 
back to the dining room. Captain Stokes never got with the 
balance of the party, but ran acros the island and, after great 
exposure and suffering, crossed the ice to the Ohio shore and 
remained for several days in the neighborhood, when he was 
betrayed and taken back to prison and committed to a dungeon 
for refusing to tell who had escaped with him. His feet and 
hands were badly frosted; several of his fingers he lost. When 
the sentinel ordered Stokes to halt, the other four behind the tree 
ran across the island and, finding the ice firm, ventured on it. 
It was about one mile to Ottaw'a County, Ohio. About half- 
way across we found a large air hole, and in our heedless hurry 
came near being ingulfed ; but fortunately that night a thin snow 
whitened the ice, while the water appeared black. After an 
exciting run, slipping, sliding, and tumbling, we reached the shore 
almost breathless. It was half-past ten o'clock, and we could 
hear the soldiers on the distant walls calling out the numbers of 



2 28 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

their posts and "All's well !" The officer of the day examined 
the wall with a lamp to see whether any Rebels had dared to 
saw or cut out, doubtless deeming it impossible to elude the 
vigilance of the sentinels on the wall. 

A short rest and we started on our long journey, over fences 
and through fields, toward the west. We observed lights in all 
the houses we passed, which gave us some uneasiness, as it might 
be a system of signals to show that our escape had been dis- 
covered. We concluded, however, that in this cold climate it 
might be necessary to have fires all night. We had mapped 
out our course, and when we got to the Port Clinton road we 
took it. We found it much warmer in the woods. Two hours 
before day, foot-sore, chilled, and weary, we sought shelter in a 
straw stack, but it had been wet and frozen. We went to a 
farmer's stable, and, groping in the dark, found bridles and two 
large, fat horses. This last condition was quite a consideration 
to men who expected to ride rapidly and bareback. While the 
honest man slept and slumbered, each of his spirited animals 
bore away two Rebels. On they sped over the level country, 
passing farmhouses and woods. When many miles had fled 
behind us, just as streaks in the east ushered in another gray, 
cold morning, Captain McConnell stopped his horse and com- 
plained that he was freezing. Major Winston, who rode behind 
him, said, "I hope not." After going a little farther, McConnell 
repeated, *T am freezing," and fell from his horse, groaning like 
a dying man. Winston tried by chafing to revive him, but to no 
effect, as he had on too much clothing. We tied the bridles over 
the horses' necks and turned their heads homeward; from their 
eyes to the head was white with frozen breath. They were in 
a trot the last we saw of them. Poor McConnell was straight- 
ened up and pushed along until his frozen hinges got in working 
order again. Awhile before sunup we knocked at a door to 
warm and, if possible, breakfast. Mine host asked us in, and 
soon had the sheet-iron roaring. We passed ourselves off as 
land speculators walking over the country prospecting, but our 
jaded looks, and especially the dilapidated condition of our ap- 
parel, excited his curiosity. He "guessed" how we were doing 
this, and that and the other thing and a thousand things about 
which we were disposed not to be communicative. After such 
fatigue and exposure to cold, we would go to sleep in spite of 
ourselves. We gratified our friend's curiosity by reliefs, as 
soldiers say. Bread, strong coffee, and fat bacon were soon pre- 
pared and dispatched. We left the little man standing in the 
door wondering why land speculators should be too mean to pay 
for breakfast. Don't, kind reader, indulge the same reflection, 
for, understand, three little gold dollars were to defray the ex- 
pense of four men three thousand miles. 



A ■rilRII.I.ING use A I'll. 229 

For fear of being overtaken, we shunncfl the highways. Pain- 
ful feelings stole over our minds when we reflected on balls and 
chains and dungeons, and possibly death, in case those irate 
guards should ever lay eyes on us again. Moreover, though 
horse-stealing may l>e punished by a long term in the Ohio peni- 
tentiary, yet the order of "Judge Lynch" is much more sum- 
mary. Especially would this be the case with prowling Rebels ; 
nor, we may presume, would our jurors be very inquisitive as to 
whether we had stolen the horse or a ride. The frost told badly 
on our cars, fihigers, feet, and noses, though the skin did not 
peel off till we reached Canada. We heard large oaks bursting 
about in the woods, I suppose from the moisture in the trees 
crystallizing. 

In the evening of January 2 we stopped at an Irishman's for 
rest. I lis person constituted his family, and he was not disturbed 
at our tumbling and snoring around his hearth and on the bed. 
Awhile before sundown we wended our way to a troubled look- 
ing Dutchman's. We exhausted ourselves in endeavoring to talk 
his countenance smooth, so we might venture to a.sk for supper, 
but apparently to no effect, h'inally we asked: "Well, sir, can 
we get supper?" lie replied, "I'll ask my woman," and ad- 
dressed a question in his knotty idiom to her, who was ironing 
at the other side of the room. We had observed that her face 
seemed to be the counterpart of her lord's — his was troubled, 
hers the troubler. This ])arody on the gentler sex growled in 
tones of distant thunder, "Nix!" The poor husband cowed back 
to the fire, and informed us that it was not possible to get supi)cr 
that night. We often afterwards thought of the poor Dutch- 
man in the woods. We left him to the tender companionshi]) of 
his wife, and pursued our footpath through woods, over marshy 
country. At ten o'clock we stopped to warm in a village. The 
people were stirring about, dropping in and going out ; we 
spurred our drooping spirits to appear lively, too. We were 
not land speculators this time, but wood choppers going' to the 
pineries in Michigan. Our appearance bore out our calling. 
After sitting and talking awhile, a soldier came in and joined 
the conversation. We thought our time, had come, but tried 
to betray no uneasiness ; but we expected every moment to see 
a squad of soldiers file in. To our great relief, the soldier proved 
to be on a furlough. The cohl weather was the general topic. 
We carelessl\- observed that those Rcbs of Johnson's Island 
must be enjoying the cool lake breeze. From their comments we 
concluded that they had heard nothing of our escape. We 
journeyed on, and a little after midnight Captain McConnell 
stopped at a house to get some soda for the heartburn. Several 
hours he continued to grow worse; before sunrise he gave out 



230 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

and begged to be left at tbe next bouse. We placed bini on tbe 
doorstep and gave bim one-fourtb of our money, and with 
mucb sorrow parted, requesting him not to knock at the door 
till we were out of sight. Since the war we learn that he 
recovered in a day or so, and went to the next depot and traded 
off his watch for a ticket for Detroit. While on the cars he saw 
a man eying bim suspiciously, and determined to leave tbe train 
when it stopped again. As he did so the detective patted bim 
on the shoulder and said, "Let's go back to Johnson's Island." 
Of course he bad to comply. 

Our party, now reduced to three, stopped for breakfast at a 
house half a mile beyond the next village. We had traveled 
twenty-four hours on one breakfast, and would not be hard to- 
satisfy ; but the prospect did look a little discouraging when we 
saw that the landlord and lady and nine children all slept and 
ate in one room, "with no visible means of support." However, 
the brisk woman raised tbe lid of a box in tbe corner, and was- 
not long in setting before us corn bread, fat bacon, and gravy. 
We divided our mites with him — I forget in what proportion, but 
he seemed satisfied. We followed the railroad all that day,. 
January 3. 

Near night we called at a but where lived an old Irishman 
and his little grandson. To a request, the old man replied that 
he could not accommodate us that night with either bed or bread. 
A view of his surroundings had almost brought us to the same 
conclusion ; but we were so tired and hungry, and, moreover, it ap- 
peared to be a safe retreat, so we asked ahnost against hope for 
entertainment. At every settlement shelter was sought. Tbe 
houses were generally occupied by Germans, who from their 
bad English we thought had been but a short time in this country. 
They seemed easily frightened. We knocked at tbe door, where 
light and human voices gave some hope that rest might at least 
be found. They became silent. After listening awhile at the 
pounding on the door, an inmate ventured to inquire, "Vocht 
dat?" To our importunity for lodging they sternly replied, 
"Nix."' Some way farther on we sat beside the road to rest in 
the deep forest. The old oaks, whose giant arms must have defied 
the storms of centuries, groaned in tbe cold night winds. We 
sat and shivered and thought of the loved ones far away in the 
Sunny South. Extreme exhaustion and feverisbness caused 
shapeless images to fht through our minds. The glands in our 
groins had swollen nearly to the size of a hen's egg. We had 
been in motion almost continuously forty-eight hours, and except 
an hour the first evening, our eyes had not closed in sleep for 
sixty hours. Toward midnight one of our party asked admit- 
tance to a house larger than common on the road. To our great 



A ri-I RILLING ESCAPE. 



231 



relief, the door was opened and we were invited to the fire. A 
few questions convinced us that we were in the hands of a 
"down-Easter." He seemed to suspect something; asked where 
we were from. "New Bedford, Mass.," repHed Captain Robin- 
son. "Ah ! that's my old home," and he began by naming dif- 
ferent residents of that old place to try Captain R. But the 
Captain, who had been many years in the whaling service, 
and of course had at least visited New Bedford, was posted. 
He soon lighted us upstairs to bed. All three huddled together. 
We retired quite uneasy, for might not this man have heard by 
telegraph of our escape, and early next morning cause our arrest? 
After a few hours' sleep we slipped into our clothes and, passing 
down through his room, gave him to understand that it would 
be quite agreeable to share his hospitality longer, but we must 
reach Toledo in time for the up train. We knew he was then 
not prepared to follow us, and would make arrangements to 
overhaul us at the depot if he attempted anything. We crossed 
the river into Toledo about daylight, and were in time to join 
the early workmen going to their places of labor. 

After leaving the city we abandoned the railroad, and bore 
away to the lake shore road. Some long-legged boys were skat- 
ing down the old canal ; the ease, the grace, and the rapidity of 
their movements appeared to be caused by the wind. We re- 
marked to each other that if we could adopt that mode of travel 
as skillfully as those boys we w^ould not fear pursuit. At noon 
our treasurer, Captain Davis, purchased some cheese and crack- 
ers at a country store, the first food we had eaten, I think, for 
thirty hours. 

That night, January 4, we passed through Monroe, during a 
snowstorm, and met people coming from church. We had 
walked. a long day's journey, but it was ten o'clock before we 
could find a hospitable roof. This was a French-Canadian, w'ho 
had moved to Michigan a short time previously. We tumbled all 
three together on a pallet and were very soon asleep ; had no 
supper, and left early next morning before breakfast. After 
going about a mile Captain Robinson discovered that he had 
left his pocketbook, probably on the pallet. It contained papers; 
which showed that he was an officer in the Confederate army. 
Major Winston went back to the house and the good womart 
handed him the pocketbook, apparently unopened. Davis and 
Winston had left all their papers in prison, and were provoked, 
that Robinson had not done the same. 

We led people to believe that Detroit was our home. We 
met an officer going to a depot which we had just passed, and 
we continued the Detroit road until he was out of sight ; w^e then 
turned to the right, fifteen miles from that city,, and made for 



232 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Trenton, a village on the Detroit River near its entrance into Lake 
Erie. About noon we stopped at a house for something to eat ; 
the person we saw was a woman, who invited us in to seats. 
I must stop to remark that we all observed to each other that 
she wore the sweetest expression we had almost ever seen. She 
was not pretty, nearly middle-aged, and rather pale ; but she had 
evidently gone through enough of this world's trials in some 
form to mellow her soul. Her conversation evinced the same. 
She gave us a piece of light bread half as large as a man's head 
and a good portion of butter. We sat on a log on the roadside 
and enjoyed our lunch very much, as we had not eaten anything 
since the cheese and bread twenty-four hours before. 

Two miles from Trenton we stepped into an old man's house, 
ostensibly to warm, but really to make inquiries concerning the 
crossing of the river. The old gentleman said eighty winters 
had passed his head, but he had never seen such a cold snap 
before. We changed our brogue to the nasal twang of New 
England ; but not effectually, as he nearly threw us off our guard 
by asking, "Are you not from the South ?" Captain Davis quick- 
ly gave some Eastern town as our home. He replied : "You 
talk like Southerners." After eliciting what information we 
•could without raising suspicion, we resumed our weary journey. 
We were delighted to find on the snow a half biscuit, dropped, 
as we supposed, by children from Trenton school. This was 
divided, as our appetites were quite keen. We soon picked up, 
in this way, quite a little sack. Just at dark we entered Trenton, 
passed down a street, and jumped on the ice. A man watering 
his horse through the ice seemed astonished at our haste, but said 
nothing. The ice at first seemed smooth as glass. Captain 
Robinson was so stunned by a fall that he scarcely recovered that 
night. We took it to be one mile across to Fighting Island, and 
two miles across the channel of the river. Briers and marshes 
made our progress on the island quite slow. We passed, one 
or two dwellings, but were not disposed to stop, as we felt that 
our troubles were almost ended. 

On the ice again, and now for Canada ! After going about a 
mile the ice became exceedingly troublesome. A storm a day or 
two before had broken and blown it about in waves. We clam- 
bered over the broken blocks, slipping and sliding at every pull. 
Major Winston felt the" ice giving away and remarked that 
we were nearing an air hole, and as he turned one foot broke 
through. Captain Robinson endeavored to get back, but both 
feet broke through, and he barely saved himself by leaning over 
on firm ice. Davis and Winston kneeled over and pulled him 
out; almost instantly his trousers were frozen stiff. This 
treacherous hole had well-nigh cut short our earthly pilgrimage. 



A THRILLING ESCAPE. 233 

Had we gone under, the current would have washed us under 
the firm ice. The dark water in these places had before marked 
such contrast with the snow. 

Our situation was a critical one in the extreme. We would 
not return to the United States side and be captured; a step 
farther was fate ; to remain in the sweeping northern wind 
equally fatal. Our only chance was to feel our way around this 
dangerous place. To avoid turning back in our confusion, Davis 
placed himself about ten feet in advance of the others, and under 
their direction made toward the north star. Poor Captain Rob- 
inson was so worn out and stunned by his fall that he threw 
his arm over Winston's shoulder, who bore him on. When we 
felt that we could not dispense with our beacon, clouds suddenly 
shut out every star. Just then a light immediately before us 
in Canada rekindled our hopes. Davis said: "If we ever get 
there, I will kiss the ground." Near the shore another airhole 
obstructed our way. We concluded, after going up and down 
the beach trying for firm ice till we grew desperate, to run across 
one at a time ; and if one broke in, the others could save him. 
The ice did not let us in, but cracked. We were safe ! 

A few steps drew us to the door of a pleasant woman, a Mrs. 
Warrior, half French and half Indian. She was glad to see 
us, gave us some pies — all she had cooked — and laid a pallet 
for us before the fire and near a large stove, both of which were 
kept roaring all night. The reader can somewhat appreciate 
our feelings of relief when he recollects that this was ten o'clock 
of the 5th of January, four days and four nights to an hour 
since we left the prison. In these four days and four nights we 
had eaten two regular meals and three snacks, counting the- biscuit 
in the snow. Above all, we were safe under the protection of 
the British flag. 

We rose the next morning stiff but refreshed. Young War- 
rior and our party walked on the beach before breakfast. Cap- 
tain Davis, pointing in the direction of our previous night's 
path over the broken ice, remarked : "That was a bad place for 
people to cross." Warrior remarked : "People never cross there." 
When we beheld the broken ice and contemplated the ship 
channel slightly covered with treacherous spray, we shuddered. 
I suppose that any soldier who spent four years in active service 
can refer to scenes of thrilling interest, but I am ready to declare 
that this night's trials on the ice were the severest of my expe- 
rience. In the battle we are generally in action; there is enthu- 
siasm and sometimes exhilaration. But now the warmth of 
our very nature was chilled. No sight or sound cheered us. 
dark clouds obscured the stars, and all was deathlike stillness 
save the whisking of the freezing winds among the sharply 
broken ice. 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



At breakfast we were informed that some refugee Kentuckians 
resided near Maiden, one mile down the river. Captain Robin- 
son's and Davis's feet being sore from frost, Major Winston 
visited these people to get some information from them. They 
occupied a large brick building, and were three or four in num- 
ber, strong, hale-looking young men, and apparently men of 
wealth, but the meanest Union and Confederate soldiers they 
met on the fields of Chickamauga or Gettysburg were too good 
to speak to the craven spirits who were forward in proclaiming 
their love of a country whose liberties they were too cowardly 
to defend. They were gloomy birds, croaking over the prospects 
for Confederate people in Canada, and remarked that they would 
have remained on Johnson's Island. Maj. Winston indignantly 
returned to his companions. The good widow had two horses 
hitched to a sleigh to take us to Windsor, thirteen miles up the 
river, without charge ; and well so, for we had nothing with 
which to remunerate her. The trip was delightful to wearied 
pedestrians, gliding over the snow, and a good portion of the 
way on the river itself. We found Mr. Hiron, to whose hotel 
we had been recommended, a fat, chufify Englishman, his appear- 
ance bearing marks of good living and. his countenance of a goad 
man. We honestly told him of our situation ; the Federal armies 
between us and our homes ; we had no money, and the prospects 
of getting any very gloomy ; but we assured him, under the cir- 
cumstances, that if he could take us for some days we would 
work (laborers there earning good wages) and repay him if we 
failed in getting means otherwise. He seemed to be touched with 
our story, and made us welcome to his house during our pleasure. 
We were much surprised and pleased to find the Hon. C. L. 
Vallandigham, then in exile, stopping at the same house. He 
invited us to his room several times, and drank toasts to our 
distressed South. He said that he hoped the war might soon 
end and peace make us all happy again, etc. One of our party 
went a little farther and proposed "General Lee and the success 
of the Southern arms." He shook his head and put down his 
glass, saying, "No. no ! in that event the Union is gone forever," 
and in the strains of the most touching eloquence gave his trials 
in his struggling for the Union as our fathers left it to us. He 
wanted fraternal feelings restored, but said that war w^as not 
calculated to do it. He was afraid of the means; the same 
sword that conquers the South might subjugate the North as 
well. "For this cause," he exclaimed, "I am here to-day, an exile- 
from home, family, country." That man a traitor? 

Major Winston wrote to a merchant in New York requesting 
a check for two hundred dollars. He -promptly replied that he 
did not know or care to know how he got to Canada; he was. 



A TH RILLING ESCAPE. 235 

only too glad to serve a kinsman of his old friend in North 
Carolina, with whom, in former days, he had large dealings. 
Major Winston received the check in a few days, and went five 
hundred miles, to Montreal, to solicit means among other friends, 
refugees and Canadian sympathizers in that city, to bring the rest 
of our party that far on their way to the South. He arrived at 
the Donegaba House, in Montreal, a little before day, and regis- 
tered from North Carolina, retired to sleep, but before break- 
fast received several visitors, and preparations for sending for 
his comrades were soon made, and they, together with some of 
General Morgan's scattered command, arrived next morning. 
We remained in the city about ten days, and probably in all that 
time did not dine or take tea at our hotel more than twice, being 
invited out. People were exceedingly kind. When the time for 
our departure came, ladies and gentlemen went with us to the 
depot and gave us a purse of thirteen hundred and fifty dollars 
in gold. On our way down the St. Lawrence we stopped over a 
day at Point Levi, opposite Quebec, to visit the fortifications of 
Quebec. They appeared indeed to be the Gibraltar of America. 
We went one hundred and ninety miles farther down the river, 
to Riviere du Loup, all the way from Montreal by rail, as the 
river was frozen. At the Riviere du Loup we started on a 
long journey around Maine, through New Brunswick and Nova 
Scotia, to Halifax — five hundred miles. This part of our trip 
we traveled on sleighs. We went by Little Grand Falls down the 
St. John River, many miles on the ice, to St. John's City. In 
our eagerness to get home we remained in Halifax only long 
enough to witness the opening of Parliament, and to be honored 
with a dinner at the rooms of some club. We took passage on 
Her Majesty's mail steamer the Alpha to St. George's, Bermuda. 
As we sailed out of the port the face of the earth was white 
with the thick covering of snow. A few days and nights, and 
we were winding our way among the hills and the clififs into the 
harbor of St. George's. Here early spring greeted us in all her 
loveliness; children were picnicking on the greensward, and 
lambs and calves nibbling about on the grassy hills. 

In a day or two .the North Carolina blockade runner, the 
Advance, was signaled. Here, she comes bounding over the bil- 
lows, bearing aloft the beautiful banner of the South — the white 
flag of peace, if we could ; but if not, the fiery cross in the corner 
was for a sign that we were not afraid of war. The steamer 
m.ade a short stay, and then we were on our journey again. We 
saw many ships and steamers, but we were quite shy of them 
-until we could see that they were not armed. Indeed, there was 
but one feeling that detracted from the pleasure of this trip : we 
felt that we had stolen something:. But, fortunatelv, we did not 



2^6 riJE STORY OF C.lMl' CflASl-:. 

fall in wiih any oi the iroiiohuls till wo i^ot in iho network of llio 
blockadors ; anil it was dark then — just hcfore day. C^ur good 
and faithful steamer glided slowly among them, tacking this way 
anil that. At one time she stopped and backed out of an en- 
counter with a grim old warship, apparently asleep, not many 
waves ahead. Just as the day began to ilawn the captain said. 
"Let her slide !" She moved on up the bay at the rate of ten 
knots, ^^'e were safe. Not yet ! We strike on a saml bar with- 
in the easy range o'f a blockailing squadron. Every effort to get 
ofT was unavailing. \\'e signaled distress to Fort Fisher. News 
was flashed to ^^"ilmiugton that the Advance must be captured 
or sunk when it grew a little lighter. The lifeboat began to droj) 
into the water, carrying the escaped prisoners to shore. Just 
then the steamer floated otT and. going around the sanil bar. made 
for Fort Fisher. Now we are safe. 

The three points, as speakers say, of my narrative were scaling 
the walls, crossing the Detroit River, and rutming the blockade at 
Wilmington; but the greatest oi (lie three was the crossing of 
the river. 



cifAi'Ti-.R xvnr. 

I'l.MN \a\\s<: ai Johnson's Isf.AND. 

'I lie Story of Licutcnan'. Cunningham — Eighteen Months a Prisoner at 
Johnson's Island — An Interesting Story Cleverly Tokl— The Lights and 
Shades of Prison Life — Pierson's Ten Conimandments— Nothing in the 
Lord's Prayer to Cover the I-^mcrgency— Getting i (onie at Last — A 
[fugging Match, 

TjfK fol!owiiij:( story is told by Lieutenant L'uimin^hani, and ap- 
IK'arcd in the Century Ma^fazine: 

fn j^^ivinj:^ my experience as a jjrisoner of war for eighteen 
months, sixteen of which were spent in the mihtary prison on 
Johnsf>n's fslanrl, in Lake Erie, I shall confine myself strictly to 
an individual exi>erience, or to such events as came under my 
immediate observation. As I kept no diary durinj:^ my impris- 
onment, I must necessarily trust entirely to my memory, giving- 
such facts as are indelibly impressed there and which are sus- 
ceptible of proof. When the least doubt as to the correctness 
of a statement has arisen in my mind, T have omitted it entirely. 
I shall enrleavor io tell rny story fairly and truthfully, without 
comment or criticism, assisted by the feeling that a quarter of a 
century has removed all vestige of bitterness. 

I enlisted from St. Helena Parish, La., in a company com- 
manded by Capt. James il. Wingfield, which on its arrival in Xcw 
^)rleans was assigned to the Fourth Louisiana Regiment, com- 
manded by Col. Henry W. .\llen, afterwards brigadier general 
and later Governor of Louisiana. He died self-exiled in the City 
of Mexico. During the first year of service our regiment was dis- 
tributed along the Mississippi Sound, and we despaired of active 
participation, fearing that the war would close before w^e couUf 
contribute our share toward a successful result ; but this idea 
was dispelled at Shilcjh. There were several firmly rooted ideas 
rudely shaken up before we got through. 

From Shiloli to Vicksburg, thence with iireckinridgc to Baton 
Rouge, it was in May, 1863, that I found myself a lieutenant in 
the Ninth Louisiana Battalion, doing duty in the trenches at 
Port Hudson, Miss. 

For nearly two months we successfully resisted all efforts of the 
i-"ederal troops to effect an entrance. Jkit the end was near. 



23S THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Short rations and constant and fatiguing duty in the trenches 
were doing their work, and the fall of Vicksburg simply hastened 
the inevitable. We were constantl}' on duty, and our food was 
neither savory nor plentiful. And right here I wish to be placed 
on record by stating that the patient mule as an eatable is a pro- 
nounced failure and no addition to an army bill of fare. 

I think that it was on the morning of July 7 that an unusual 
■commotion in the enemy's camp excited our curiosity and sharp- 
ened our vigilance. Shouting, yelling, band-playing, and the 
wildest hurrahs showed that good news had come to them, 
which, if true, meant the reverse to us. It was good news — too 
good to keep — and we soon learned that Vicksburg had fallen. 
There was not a man in the camp that did not realize the meaning 
of this, and we were anxious to know what surrender meant 
for us. 

When the white flags went up on the works, the space between 
the lines was soon filled by the men from both armies, and 
"Yanks" and "Rebs" fraternized in so friendly and amicable a 
spirit that it required some little efifort to realize that these men 
had only the day previous been shooting at one another on pur- 
pose. 

They now became our hosts, and invitations to supper were 
freely extended by the "boys in blue" and as freely accepted by 
the "boys in rags." I do not think that a single invitation was 
■declined. I did full justice to the first square meal that had 
fallen to my lot in many days. They were invited into our lines, 
with many courteous inquiries as to why they had not come over 
sooner, with the equally courteous reply that they had started to 
do so on several occasions. 

In a day or two the Union forces took formal possession of 
the place ; and as, drawn up in line, we faced each other, the 
difference in the personal appearance of the men was strongly 
marked and most decidedly in favor of the "Yanks." As our 
men were not dressed with any degree of uniformity, the}'- pre- 
sented none of the pomp of war in their appearance, no two being 
dressed exactly alike, and strongly suggesting the nursery-rhyme 
beggars that caused the dogs to bark, "for some were in rags and 
some in tags;" but the velvet gowns were conspicuous by their 
absence. » In common with many others who followed the for- 
tunes of the Confederacy, it has been my fate at times to find my 
wardrobe in a most unsatisfactory condition ; so much so that on 
several occasions, prompted by my innate modesty, I have backed 
up against some friendly fence or wall whenever a lady came in 
sight. 

The terms of surrender paroled the noncommissioned officers 
and the privates. The officers were allowed to retain their side 
arms, and were to be held as prisoners of war. This was a 



PLAIN LIVING AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND. 239 

■gloomy outlook, but we were much relieved by the assurance that 
an early exchange was only a degree or so removed from a cer- 
tainty — not too early, you know, but early. We philosophically 
accepted the situation, which, as there w^as no other course left 
open, was much the best thing to do under the circumstances. 
Besides, we felt that we had well earned a short vacation and 
"were entitled to some rest and recreation after our arduous labors. 

During the latter part of the siege I was in the habit of visiting 
the hospital, where some members of my company lay wounded 
or sick, and carried with me some of the corn beer brewed in the 
camp and much relished by the convalescents. On a cot near 
one of these lay a young Union soldier badly wounded in the hip. 
He was a mere boy and much too young to follow the fortunes 
of an army. I became interested in the little fellow. He soon 
drew his rations of beer with the rest, and we became fast 
friends. Standing on the transport which was to convey us to 
New Orleans, a Federal officer mentioned that a Union soldier 
wished to see me in the cabin. Going to him, I found my little 
hospital friend ; and, at his request, I assisted in removing him 
from a stretcher to a berth. Asking me to sit with him awhile, 
he told me that in all probability we would be sent North, and 
should I at any time find myself free, either by escape or by pa- 
role, by all means to make my way to his home and be assured 
of any help he or his could give me. He gave me his address, 
and at the time I thought but little of the matter. But many 
times before I reached Dixie this slighted invitation weighed as 
heavily as a crime, for the opportunity came later on and I let 
it pass. 

On our arrival in New Orleans we were assigned quarters in 
difit'erent parts of the city, the larger portion, myself among the 
number,, being quartered in the customhouse building, where our 
treatment, rations, and bestowal were all that could be desired. 
We shook off the mud of the trenches with the clothes that held 
it, and, thanks to our friends in the city, were well clad, and 
dainty food was the order of the day. If such was to be the 
existence of a prisoner of war, it seemed strange that whole 
armies did not allow themselves to be captured. Visitors were 
admitted to the reception room, and, giving the name of the offi- 
cer they wished to see, he was immediately sent for. No restric- 
tions nor limit seemed to be placed on the number or value of 
the presents given us, and even the confinement was broken by 
frequent leaves of absence from the building. Msits were paid 
in the city, though we never remained out all night unless "chape- 
roned" by some Federal officer; and it was pleasant association 
with some of these that opened our eyes to the fact that, when not 
engaged in trying to kill you, a "Yank" was a first-rate fellow. 
You see, we knew so little of each other before the war. So 



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ploasjuu wcio vMn suiivuiiulinj^s. ami st< (.■li.ui_i;ril »mu huhIo »>t 
life, as eompaiinl with iho ^lisvotufiMts ot' o.nup .uul ttouvh, that 
wo rather hopovl that tho o\oha)\i;o mis^ht he delaxe^l \oi a httle 
U>ui^er aiul leave us in our fools' paradise. 1 iK> not think our 
wishes eairievl an\ weis^ht in the n\atlev: hut we had our will - 
the rvehaui^e was iKdayed. 

We had been oeenpants ol tho eusionihonse alunn two tnoitths 
when we were it»forn»eil that wo weie to he sent North for e\- 
ohanj^e. r>y this lime ntost oi us were in full oiti.'ei\s' roi^alia. and 
nt\i forms were the exooption. Siilo aru\s were disposed of few 
earrviui^ them Xorih hoins; distrihnted as sottvenirs or left for 
safe-keepinvi'. auvl in some instanoos j^iven as prt\><ents to I'ederal 
ot)\eers. Preparations wotv- mailo for dopartmo, adions o\ 
ehai\,iied. a«td in sonto eases simply an r«V'(>»/. as we expooted to 
return hy way i>f New Orleans; attd otu* day'ahont the middle of 
Soptonther svMtie three hundred well dressed t.\>n fedora tv>s took 
passaj^e oj\ the steamship l"'votni\!; Star, htnunl iov New W^k 
i^'ity. as ditTerei\t outwardly from the "Rohs'" who loft Tort Hud- 
son as the butterfly from the i;rtib. Many, m,my times in the 
near future bow we missoil the s;ruh d.i\s at»d wished thont h.iek 
ai;ain ! 

Nothing; of import. moo ooounod on the voy.ij^o s.ivo a seven 
vlavs" t»j;bt with seasiekness. 

We fom\vl waitiuj;' on our arrival two lit\es i^f Q'uards extend- 
in!>' from the s^auiiway, and after an li»nir or two 1 started ashore, 
eertainlx not expootiuii that 1 would not ho allowed to pas.s 
boyouil the Hunts, with no v^thor desire than to be on shore onee 
n\ore. I most eertainly did not dream o\ eseapo. \s 1 p.is^o 1 
ipiietly aloi\j;'. ilressod in eiviliatt i^arb. 1 was rou^lulv onlorod 
b\ a voice shod in a rieh Milosiaii broi^uo to "i iot om of that." 
the owt\er of the vvmoo steppiuii' asivle at the .<an\e tinto tv^ allow 
nte li^ pass. 1 eould seareely thitik the mai\ in earnest, at\d 
looked at hint to see if he meant it. and was fully oonvitui'd 
of his sitteerity by the mattner in which he emphasized his re- 
quest with his hayottot. I'as.siuii- to tho rear. I iiot out of that; 
and walking into the streets of New York. I found myself a free 
ntait. Tnit tuwv that 1 was free, of what use was my freedom? 
I was entirely without friends, not oven an acqnaintatice. in a 
stranue eitv. I was too well dressed to pla\ the role of boi^i^ar 
without oxoitiuii' suspieion. all tho n\v>re that my absence would 
be ttotovl. 

My fmuls wore painfuly limited, so nmch so that my last 
dollar deserted i\ie at Satidnsky. I had iti^t the least idea of 
what the future had ii\ store for me, and could judi^e uotbiuj; 
save by the past, which carried with it only pleasant recollec- 
tivMis. "The invit,ttion oi m\ little hospital friet\d was tluly con- 



I'l.Ais' i,n'i\(; A'l ions SOS'S isi.asu /.\i 

<\iWri<\ au'l rlibniihv'I, We w'T'- brouj^lil here to 1m: ex< lianj^'^l, 
ft) a few weeks 1 w^/uM be once more in l>ixje. Why escape 
al all:' 

I hiirri<'<l hark, aij<l had to 'xplaiii that J l^'-loii^*''! on hoar'l 
of the hteaiiM-r h<'fore I was allowe^l to pass, ''>n rej'/ininj^ my 
(oiDpaiiions I jneDtiojM-'l the iivirleul, and two of th'-m tried the 
<xp<ri)iie)il. One rearhed home in safety, as I afi'-rwards learne'l, 
'Ih'- fate of the oth'-r I do not know, \hn\uu, iJ"' l''"5<f weary 
months of eonhnemenl that followed, I liad ample leisure to 
curse my mistake, and, thoiij^li hnnj^ry, oM, and sick, [ cannot 
rem<-mlxr th<; time when I had not vitality <*nough left U) im- 
prove the opportutiity, ICven at this lat<' dat<', wheji thinkit»j< 
it over, I feel that I am fairly entitled to share the r'-jMitation of 
"'rhoinj;son's <olt," After a f<rw days on ^<overnor's Island, 
we were inform'd as to our final destination ; this, we were j^iven 
to understand, was men-Iy pr«h'minary to aji exchanj^e. W- 
wer<; to he sent to Johnson's Island, Lake I'.rie, 

Our route lay over the ICrie Railroad, and we ma/h- tlie trj)> 
oil parole, Tlx' j;(uards placd at each door of our t/m'h w<-re 
not for our Cf;mfort only, as we were ohje<:ts of fnarke/j curiosity 
during the trij>, and wouhl have In^en ov<'rrun with visjtr,>rs had 
not admittance heen refused. At th<: dirf<'reut stations we min- 
gled freely with the pc^/j^le on the platform ; afjd found thetn, with 
few exc<'|;tions, courteous hut irKptisitivc. We were, no doubt, 
a disappointing^ lot. There was nothinj^ if) our aj;j>arel to tuark 
the K'b'l v;ldi<r, and as we minj^led with the crowd surprise 
was freely «xpressed that w were not as tJM-ir fancy j>ainled 
us, ihouj^h just what shape that fancy t/x>k 1 never learned. 

The ladies, as was the caw; iK^h North a»id S'nith, were in- 
tensely patrioti<:, atjd read us severe and no doubt salut;iry lee 
tures oj) the evil of our ways, which wn- submissively and cour 
l<ously re<:eived and duly pondered. 

There was one 'juesiion that you o>\\\<\ saf<'ly waj^er would be 
asked by five out of ten, and that was: "I>o y/u honestiv think 
you are rij<ht?'' 'I'his cot)imdr>nr» was offered to tne m> often 
that when; time allow*'!, b<inj^ in President IJnc/>ln's c^ntntry, I 
answered in President IJncoln's style by statinj^ that it "retjiitided 
me," and told them of tlie ty^uple wh*^) took th'ir bridal trip on an 
'x.ean steamer, with the usual result, -As the husl>and would 
return from sundry trips U> the rail of the vessel his younj^ wif<; 
woulrj infjuire; "Kej^inald, (hrYtn^. are you sick?" 'Jo which he 
at last rc.-j^lied : "('too(\ heavens! Kebecca, do you think 1 am 
doinj^ this for fun?" 

Sandusky reached, just across the bay we caui(ht the first 
glimpse of our future fjtiarters, the military prwm on Johns^^n's 
Island. I p to this time we had been kindly treattrd in many re- 
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242 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

spects — far l^etter than we had hoped for or expected. Our in- 
tercourse with the Union soldiers so far had been confined to men 
who had served in the field, and was uniformly of a pleasant 
nature. I am sure that the men both North and South will 
bear me out in the assertion that as soon as your enemy captured 
you he became your friend, as far as consistent with his duty. 

We were soon to learn the distinction between front and rear. 
In order to know how to treat prisoners, you should have a hand 
in capturing- them. 

Leaving- the ferry, which brought us across the bay, we walked 
into the office, where we were registered and searched, all money 
being surrendered and receipted for. Its equivalent in the pris- 
on was represented by sutler's checks, a form of currency an- 
swering all purposes until, owing to the restrictions imposed upon 
us, it ceased to be of service. 

All formalities completed, the big gates swung open to admit 
us, and, greeted on all sides with cries of "Fresh fish! Fresh 
fish !" we entered and joined our comrades — "not lost, but gone 
before." And so sometime in October, 1863, the writer took 
what at that time he supposed to be but temporary quarters in 
a Northern prison. His stay was prolonged far beyond what he 
expected, and it is the story of a sixteen months' forced visit that 
he tells as best he can without embellishment, assuring the reader 
that, while some few may have fared better, his experience is that 
of the majority and does not represent the worst. 

Curiosity has never prompted me to revisit the Island, and 
I have been told that there now remains nothing by which it 
could be recognized by its former occupants. [Note. — Lieuten- 
ant Cunningham here gave a description of the prison on John- 
son's Island, which is left out, as it has been described previously 
in this volume. — Editor.] 

It was the severity of the winters that told so heavily on us. 
JMany were from the extreme South, and some had never seen 
a fall of snow. Coming from New Orleans, and wearing such 
clothes as were adapted to its climate in the month of September, 
the first day of January, 1864. was a revelation. 

On that day the thermometer marked twenty-five degrees below 
zero, and the writer was not more warmly clad than when now on 
a summer's night in that same city he writes these lines. So in- 
tense Avas the cold that the sentries were taken from the walls, 
and the ice king kept watch and ward for Uncle Sam. The big- 
gate could have been left open and few of the prisoners would 
have taken the chance of escape, in view of almost certain death. 
The entire winters were bitter cold, and from our exposed position 
I am satisfied that the cold was much more intense than on the 
mainland. 

Occasional gales would now and then sweep across the Island, 



PLAIX LiriXG AT JOHXSOX'S ISLAND. 243 

testing the strength of our buildings, and it was during one of 
these that two officers took refuge in a dry well as affording the 
greatest protection against the storm. One of these, on being 
asked by the other to oft'er up a prayer for their preservation, 
replied that he was acquainted only with the Lord's Prayer, and 
there was nothing in that to cover the emergency. 

The bay around Johnson's Island was guarded by the United 
States steamer Michigan, which, when the season permitted, lay 
within a few hundred yards of the shore. Other steamers, loaded 
with excursionists, would occasionally run close in. prompted by 
curiositv, and taunt us by their shouts and jeers. Their favorite 
pastime was, or seemed to be, the singing of patriotic songs, 
which was admissible, and I could find no reasonable cause of 
complaint as to the sopranos and contraltos ; but when basso- 
profundos and baritones musically expressed their intention to 
"rally "round the flag." I thought of thousands of Northern men 
already engaged in that occupation far to the front, who, if not 
so vocalistic. w-ere at least equally patriotic. 

I was assigned to Block 11. Room 3, and was advised at once 
to study "Pierson's Ten Conmiandments." The first eight of this 
decalogue, with the exception of No. 6, referred to matters of 
police and fatigue duty only, but the rest were of a different 
character and were well worth committing to memory in order to 
avoid serious accidents. [The prison rules mentioned by Lieuten- 
ant Cunningham as "Pierson's Ten Commandments" are given 
elsewhere. — Editor. ] 

Thirty feet from the fence was the "dead line" referred to in 
Order No. 9. On the north side the sinks were situated, in the 
rear of the buildings, about ten feet from the fence, and conse- 
quently they lay twenty feet within the dead line. It was on this 
side of the inclosure that Capt. J. D. Meadows, of the First Ala- 
bama Regiment, was shot by the guard on Post 13 and severely 
wounded. 

I have read articles in which the terrible dead line was held, up 
and denounced as brutal and inhuman, but I doubt if there exist- 
ed an inclosed military prison North or South that did not possess 
this distinctive feature. Its use was to prevent prisoners crowd- 
ing against the fence, and I do not remember that we regarded 
it in any other light than a very necessary precaution. We knew 
that the sentinel was required to shoot without warning the pris- 
oner who crossed that line, and we felt that most of them were 
willing to do so ; hence, if we violated Order No. 9, we were 
liable to be killed under Order No. 10. The matter rested entirely 
with ourselves. 

Wq had to bear evils of a far more serious nature, over which 
we had no control, and such trifles as dead lines worried us but 
little. The time I was at Johnson's Island there were about 



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twentv-five hundred in confinement, and the quarters were well 
crowded. The sleeping arrangements consisted of bunks in tiers 
of three, each furnished with the usual army bedtick stuffed with 
straw, and far superior to the earth and ditch which had been 
our beds for months previous to our capture. The crowded con- 
dition of the prison necessitated that two men should occupy each 
bunk, which had the redeeming feature in winter that the occu- 
pants were sheltered by two blankets instead of one. 

It was an evil genius that selected my bunk, for it lay just 
under the roof, and sometimes the snow, finding its way in, would 
cover me like a wet blanket. I have a vivid recollection of the 
result in the form of an attack of lumbago that sent my forehead 
to my knees and put it beyond my power to assume the position 
of a soldier for many days. With the thermometer well down in 
the tube, scantiest of bedclothing, and no fire, you can well imag- 
ine what portion of "tired nature's sweet restorer" fell to our 
lot. Under the circumstances, it is not strange that pulmonary 
- and rheumatic complaints should have prevailed to a great extent. 
I know of one man who is now, after the lapse of twenty-five 
years, chained to his chair, hopelessly crippled — a souvenir of his 
imprisonment. 

Rations and wood were brought in daily, and to each mess 
were delivered an ax and a bucksaw. These were collected and 
taken out each night : and should any mess -fail to return them, no 
wood was brought in until the missing tools were given up. This 
happened once during my stay ; but private enterprise, looking 
to the escape of a few. had to give way to the public weal, and 
the ax and saw showed up. Details from the mess were made 
each day for police and fatigue duty ; and the most fatiguing duty, 
as I remember it, was sawing wood — not that there was so much 
to saw, but the most of us w^ere not used to it. Shortly after 
reveille a noncommissioned officer and guard entered the room 
and we were mustered for roll call. Sometimes the guard would 
bring us the newspaper, giving double-leaded information, oft- 
times revised and corrected in subsequent issues. 

After roll call we were free to kill the monotony of confinement 
as best we could, all parts of the inclosure being for our use ex- 
cept the north side and beyond the dead line. "Retreat'" sent us 
to our quarters, and. knowing the penalty, we were strict observ- 
ers of this rule. It was for an alleged violation of this rule that 
Lieutenant Gibson, of the Eleventh Arkansas, lost his life. He 
was visiting some friends in a neighboring block and, hearing 
"retreat" sounded, started to his room and was about to enter, 
Avhen the sentinel ordered him back to his quarters. He endeav- 
ored to explain that he was then going into his room, but the ex- 
planation was evidently unsatisfactory. The sentinel fired and 
killed him. 



PLAIN LiriXG AT JOHXSOX'S ISLAXD. 245 

The only antidote to the terrible ennui of prison life was occu- 
pation, and very few were without employment of some kind. In 
fact, during the latter part of our stay it was an infallible sign 
of surrender when the men became listless and no longer cared 
for the things which had heretofore been either their work or 
their recreation. Workbenches sprang up in every available 
spot ; rings were made of gutta-percha buttons ; rulers and oyster 
shells were transformed into charms, rings, and breastpins, equal 
in artistic design and execution to the best specimens of profes- 
sional handiwork. In one instance, with nothing better than the 
w^ood pile on which to draw for material, one of the men fashioned 
a violin; while a four-bladed penknife, complete in all ils parts, 
attested the skill of one of my messmates. Articles manufactured 
bv the prisoners were in demand and found a ready sale, the me- 
dium of traffic being the prison officials, who sold them on the out- 
side, returning the proceeds to the manufacturer, who was en- 
abled to better his condition until such time as money lost its 
purchasing power. I do not remember that a visitor was ever 
allowed inside the prison walls; but I do recall that a wife once 
obtained permission to visit the Island, and, standing on the out- 
side of the '"pen." was allowed to look at her husband as he stood 
on the landing of the stairs of Block 2. I do not think that the 
termination of the war would have been delayed five seconds had 
they taken him under guard to the wife or allowed her to enter 
the prison. 

Books and newspapers were admitted, after due examination, 
and with many of us formed our sole refuge. Classes were 
opened and studies resumed or new ones begun. A first-class 
minstrel band, known as the "Rebellonians," gave entertainments 
from time to time and played to crowded houses. All the popular 
airs of the day were conscripted and the words rewritten to ex- 
press our peculiar views of the situation. The dramatic element 
had its innings, and I think that Peeler's "Battle of Gettysburg" 
had the unprecedented run of three weeks, at one performance 
per week. We never succeeded in putting on a first-class ballad. 
These performances took place in the afternoon ; for, as before 
stated, the guards had very pronounced views as to our being 
absent from quarters after retreat. 

All letters to and from the prisoners were opened and exam- 
ined by our jailers, and if found in order were stamped with 
"Examined" and the initials of the man who had read the letter 
and passed it. Our correspondence was limited only as to the 
number per diem, space, expression of political sentiment, and 
ability to pay postage. With these exceptions, there were no re- 
strictions. We were allowed to write on one side of a half 
sheet of paper, and our correspondents w^ere subjected to the 
same rules. 



^46 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

I have received notifications that letters addressed to me were 
held because they violated this rule, and have been instructed to 
inform the writers accordingly. To be placed on the black list 
meant stoppage of our mail ; and, in order to realize the severity 
of the punishment, you must put yourself in the position of a pris- 
oner with letters as your only communication with the outside 
world. It must have been from this cause that I acquired a terse, 
jerky style that has clung to me ever since. Sentimentally, 
"cleanliness is indeed next to godliness ;" practically, it is con- 
ducive to health and comfort, and we tried to enforce its unwrit- 
ten laws. When a "fresh fish" was assigned to our room, he was 
initiated by being required to take a bath and to boil his clothes, 
long experience in army matters having proved that this was the 
only way of getting rid of that energetic little pest known as the 
Pediculus I'estwienti. It was one of the species crawling on a 
lady's bonnet string that suggested an ode to the poet Burns. 

As our clothing gradually grew worse soap and water seemed 
to lose their powers, and we resorted to dyeing such garments as 
needed renovation, using for that purpose a liquid dye. You sim- 
ply emptied the vial into a pot of boiling water, immersed the 
garment to be operated on, and voila! One of my mess was a 
Lieutenant Blank, who knew some things very well ; and he, 
wishing to improve the appearance of an old flannel shirt, sought 
out the hospital steward, who sold the liquid, and put the question : 
"What is it you fellows dye with here?" 

The steward, supposing that he had some inquisitive statistician 
on his hands, answered that they died of different things, but 
thought that pneumonia had the call just then. "Well," said Blank, 
"give me a two-bit bottle." Of course the story leaked out, and 
the lieutenant ran the gantlet. Some mornings afterwards Blank 
mounted a chair and made a speech. In crude but unmistakable 
words, and with a depth of meaning in their utterance, he an- 
nounced that the next man who said "pneumonia" in his hearing- 
would have him to whip. Most of us, knowing the difficulty of 
the undertaking, were so nnich on our guard that we did not dare 
to cough or to give in any way the least suggestion of pulmonary 
complaint, lest we should have cause to regret our indiscretion. 

Retreat found, us in our quarters, and at lo p.m. taps extin- 
guished our lights. I have heard that for a violation of this rule 
the guards would often fire into the block. Believing this to be 
true, I can vouch for its having happened at least once during- 
my stay. It was during the evening that we gathered around 
the stove or the long table anrl discussed matters of interest (the 
war and the absorbing question of exchange), swapped yarns 
(some of the number being exceptionally good raconteurs), or' 
listened while some "Truthful James'' taxed our credulity to the 
verge of courtesv. 



PLAIN LIVING AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND. J47 

And here, lest I forget it, I desire to apologize in behalf of our 
stove. I have known it, when doing its best, to fail to melt the 
frost on the window panes, less than eight feet away. 

"Taps" sent us to our bunks, except such night owls as grouped 
together and conversed in undertones. Sometimes a voice would 
start in song, another and another would join, and though neither 
voices nor execution were of a high order, the wet eyelids of many 
a homesick "Reb" would pay tribute to "Home, Sweet Home" or 
''Only Waiting." It was at night, alone with our thoughts, that 
we carried our heaviest load, when fancy bridged the distance that 
separated us from the homes that had been silent to us for many 
months. 

I do not know how nostalgia ranks as a separate anrl specific 
disease, but I do know that it handicaps a man terribly in his 
struggle for life. Later on, during my convalescence in the 
hospital, one of my command lay near me, and I could hear him 
murmur to himself, "I shall never see home again ;" and, steadily 
sinking-, Lieutenant Starns turned his face to the wall and died. 

During the earlier portion of our stay we constantly looked 
forward to exchange, and it was this hope that served in a 
measure to mitigate the ills of our prison life. The "grapevine" 
spoke to us of little else. 

The main feature of this prison telegraph was its complete 
unreliability. xA.s I remember, it was never correct, even by ac- 
cident ; but it sang songs of exchange and release, and, while feel- 
ing the notes to be false, we yet liked the music and hoped it true. 

It was toward the fall of 1864 that I began to give up all hope 
of exchange, and could see no prospect of release save the close 
of the war or death. I looked the matter squarely in the face, 
and could see no rational reasi^n why the North should either de- 
sire or consent to an exchange. The Southern army, unable to 
recruit its losses, was being depleted ; for every man killed, 
wounded, or missing- made a permanent vacancy. With grim 
humor it was said that our conscript officers had been ordered to 
take every man not over two weeks dead. Why, then, should the 
North make the mistake of recruiting the Southern army with 
fifty thousand veteran soldiers, and they with experience enough 
of prison life to justify extra exertions in avoiding a second visit? 
I could then see no reason for it; and though I have since read 
much concerning the reasons for a nonexchange, I am satisfied 
that the above is about the correct solution of the problem. 

Were I to write only the experience of the first four months of 
our imprisonment, I could have little to say in the way of com- 
plaint aside from the ills which necessarily attend confinement 
and form a part of every prisoner's lot. It was not heaven, but as, 
yet it did not represent the other extreme. 

Our treatment by the officers of Hoffman's Battaliou was, as 



248 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

far as I know, courteous enough ; and as to the enhstcd men who 
guarded us, my principal objection, aside from their propensity to 
shoot, lay in the fact that most of them could not address us as 
"Rebels" without qualifying the term with the adjective "damned." 
Our food was abundant, owing to our ability to purchase from 
the Post sutler and the hucksters who came into the prison daily, 
besides which many were in receipt of supplies from friends and 
relatives in the North, and hence were entirely independent of 
the prison rations and fed on dainties not found on the prison 
menu. The men looked well and strong, and in marked contrast 
with their appearance later on. Just when the change took place 
I do not remember, but it came suddenly. I connect it in some 
way with the spring of 1864. We bade a final adieu to sutler and 
purveyors of every kind, and realized that a limited ration would 
hereafter be our only supply, that we must content ourselves as 
best we could with such quantity as the government saw fit to 
give. 

Money could buy nothing in the way of food ; and, speaking 
for myself, I reached at last that stage when, were it in my power, 
I would have bartered gold for bread ounce for ounce. We were 
forbidden to write for food, and it was only by strategy that, if 
written, such letters reached their destination. 

It sometimes happened that the Post surgeon would allow such 
packages as reached the Island to be delivered to their owners. 
He evidently had a professional dislike to sickness and suffering. 

The vital question with us was the victuals question. As to the 
daily ration, I remember that it consisted of a loaf of bread and a 
small piece of fresh meat. Its actual weight I do not remember, 
if I ever knew. I do know that it was not sufficient to satisfy 
the cravings of hunger, and left us each day with a little less life 
and strength with which to fight the battle of the day to follow. 

I heard that our surgeons (Confederate) furnished a protest, in 
which they asserted that the quantity of food furnished each 
man was not more than sufficient to sustain life. Coffee was un- 
known, and I remember on several occasions, far apart, receiving 
two potatoes and an onion. If these were given medicinally, the 
dose was homeopathic, and it was certainly scurvy treatment. 

As the months passed on a marked change was noticeable in the 
appearance of the men. They became depressed and listless, and 
unsuspected traits of disposition cropped to the surface. The 
parade ground was dotted with gaunt, cadaverous men, with a 
far-away look in their eyes, and with hunger and privation show- 
ing in every line of their emaciated bodies. It was believed by 
many of us that this mode of treatment was enforced as a re- 
taliatory measure; and this belief certainly received strong sup- 
port when, looking across the bay, we saw a city whose waste 
alone would have supplied our wants. 



PLAIX LII'JXG AT JOHNSOX'S ISLAXD. 249 

I have seen a hungry "Reb"" plunge his hand into the swill 
iDarrel of some mess and, letting the water drain through his fin- 
gers, greedily devour what chance had given him, if anything. 
Speaking for myself — and well aware of what I state — ^I assert 
that for months I was not free from the cravings of hunger. 
One-half of my loaf and the meat portion of my ration were 
eaten for dinner. I supped on the remaining piece of bread and 
"breakfasted with "Duke Humphrey." I sometimes dreamed of 
food, but cannot remember in my dreams ever to have eaten it, 
becoming, as it w^ere, a sort of "Johnson's Island Tantalus." 

When we arrived on the Island the rats were so numerous that 
thev were common sights on the parade ground. Later on they 
disappeared. Many of the prisoners ate them. If asked if I 
myself have ever eaten one, I answer no, because to cook a rat 
properlv (like Mrs. Glasse's hare) you must first catch him. I 
liave sat half frozen in our mess kitchen armed with a stick 
spiked with a nail, but was never fortunate enough to secure 
the game. A dog w-ould have served the purpose better, but 
the chances were that some hungry "Reb" would have eaten 
the dog. 

One of the Northern illustrated papers published a picture of 
one of the Belle Isle prisoners which certainly showed an extreme 
state of emaciation. Some of the mess suggested that I compete 
with him, kindly offering to back the Confederate entry. 

I think they w^ould have won their bets ; for, though regretting 
that I must acknowledge the fact, I am confident that I was the 
worse-looking specimen of the two. I had entered the prison 
weighing over one hundred and forty pounds, and then weighed 
less than one hundred. To a demonstrator of anatomy I would 
have been invaluable as a living osteological text-book. The pro- 
longed confinement had told severely on us, and the men could 
not but yield to its depressing influence. There was but little 
to vary the dreary monotony that made each day the repetition of 
the day before and the type of the day to follow. This alone 
would have been sufficient ; but when scant food and cold were, 
thrown into the scale, it is little wonder that both mind and body 
should yield under the constant strain. Many of us were far 
into the second winter of our confinement, and with all hope of 
release gone, we had nothing left to wait for but the end, 
whatever that end might be ; and it was weary waiting. 

It was generally known among us that some mitigation of our 
condition would be afforded such as took the oath of allegiance ; 
and as this meant increased food and better clothing, some few 
availed themselves of the offer. But one case came under my 
notice — that of a member of the mess. He, I presume, could not 
help it. as it was with him simply a question of endurance, and he 
gave it up. It was said of him that he froze up early in the first of 



250 THIi STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

November and did not thaw out until the following June. The 
prospect of a repetition was too much for him. 

It is small wonder, then, that many found their way into the 
prison hospital (then managed by Confederate physicians, pris- 
oners like ourselves), and thence to the prison graveyard. 
Thanks to the generosity of a Louisiana officer (Col. J. O. Nixon. 
I think), who furnished the lumber, headboards were placed at 
the graves of our dead ; and as very many of these were carved in 
our room, I have some personal knowledge as to their being 
numerous, though I cannot speak with certainty as to the actual 
number of deaths or the percentage of mortality. I would here 
state incidentally that the only occasion on w-hich I passed beyond 
the limits of the inclosure was when, with two or three others, I 
assisted in placing these boards in the graveyard. I met and con- 
versed with a couple of ladies, the first with whom I had spoken 
for more than a year. Our appearance aroused their womanly 
sympathy and, being Rebel prisoners, we excited their feminine 
curiosity. I waited, and at last it came : "Do you think you are 
right?" Seated on a grave, I told of Reginald and Rebecca for 
the last time, the application all the more apropos for the extra 
year of imprisonment and wdiat it brought. 

It was early in January, 1865, that the writer fortunately found 
himself occupying a cot in the hospital and slowly recovering- 
from an attack of fever. I use the term "fortunatejy" advisedly, 
since convalescence brought with it comforts in the way of food 
to which we had long since been strangers. 

Like Little Dorrit's protegee, Maggy, I have pleasant recollec- 
tions of the hospital. Not "such d'licious broth and wine," per- 
haps, nor yet "chicking," but I renewed my acquaintance with 
the almost forgotten taste of coffee ; and while a slice of fat pork 
would scarcely rank now as a sick room dainty, the surroundings 
were different, and I regretted the improvement that sent me 
back to the old life. 

Sickness proved a blessing in disguise, for orders came that 
the sick should parade for inspection, the worst cases to be sent 
South on parole. Many succeeded in passing muster, and one 
day in February the big gate swung open and a number of us 
took up our line of march across the frozen bay — homeward 
bound — and bade a final adieu to a spot unmarked by a single 
pleasant recollection. 

We left Sandusky knowing nothing, caring nothing, of our 
route, so long as our course pointed toward "Dixie." The passen- 
ger coaches which brought some of us sixteen months before were 
replaced by box cars, which we warmed by packing the floors with 
earth, on which we built a fire : which afforded a minimum of heat 
with a maximum of smoke. It was at Grafton, W. Va., that we 
sidetracked long enough to enable us to sit regularly at table and 



PLAIN LIVING AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND. 25 1 

indulge in the novelty of a first-class meal. It was table d'hote^ 
and I fear the landlord realized but scant profit at so much a 
stomach and they such chronic cases of vacuum. 

One of our men stated that he felt the first mouthful of food 
swallowed by him strike on the sole of his foot ; but as this state- 
ment has its foundation on an anatomical impossibility, I give it 
no credence. 

It was here or at some neighboring station that we met a batch 
of Federal soldiers returning from the South. We learned that 
they were from Andersonville, and, as usual, we mingled together, 
comparing notes and indulging in the usual chat¥ which was gen- 
erally a feature of such meetings. As we separated they ex- 
pressed their intention of again visiting us, and in turn were so- 
licited to bring their guns with them. This practice of poking 
fun, in spite of its frequency, was rarely carried beyond the 
bounds of good temper. 

In this connection I would mention an incident which occurred 
on the Island, in which the "Reb" came out second-best. 

A regiment of hundred days' men was in camp outside the 
"pen," and when Morgan was on one of his raids this regiment 
was sent out to meet him. As they marched by, one of their 
number sang out : "Boys, we're going to bring John Morgan to 
keep you company !" In due time they returned. They had met 
Morgan and had exchanged their accouterments for a parole. 
As they went by, one of our number shouted : "Boys, where's 
your guns ?" And quickly came back the retort : "Morgan's got 
them; where's yours?" No reply was made to this. Under the 
circumstances there was none to make, and the rest of us wished 
the fellow had kept quiet. 

A slow, fatiguing, and uncomfortable trip brought us, via the 
outskirts of Baltimore, to Fort Henry, and thence to Point Look- 
out, where we were turned loose in that "pen." Thinking that 
we had exhausted the capacity of prison life for harm, we were 
little prepared for the sight which met our eyes as we entered this 
place ; but, seeing these unfortunates, we felt that we stood in 
the presence of men who had touched depths of suffering that we 
had not reached. All along the route we were fearful lest some 
evil chance should turn us back again to the old life ; but that fear 
became secondary to the dread lest we should call a permanent 
halt at this point, and we drew a long breath of relief when we 
marched out of the place. 

There was little need to ask questions. It was entirely unneces- 
sary to mine for information — the nuggets of misery lay scat- 
tered on the surface and told the pitiful story without assistance 
from human tongue. Since that time I have conversed and 
compared notes with men who had a story of imprisonment to tell, 
and I am satisfied that, as compared with the enlisted men at' 



252 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Point Lookout, Elmira, Rock Island, Camps Morton, Chase, and 
Douglas, the officers at Johnson's Island, merely tasted purgatory ; 
the men went beyond that. 

A few hours too many, and we were checked and counted and 
loaded on the steamer that was to carry us to City Point, the 
last stage of our journey, and for that reason thfe most satisfac- 
tory portion of our trip. 

As we came alongside the vessel a voice hailed us with, "Have 
you fellows ever had the smallpox?" and then gave the cheering 
information that there was plenty of it aboard. He was correct 
in his statement ; but in view of what had already fallen to our 
share, I think we looked upon smallpox as one of the lesser 
evils and scarcely gave the matter a thought. It remembered 
me, however. 

We were placed in the lower hold, of the vessel, the space be- 
tween decks being occupied by the sick, and it required skillful 
maneuvering to mount by the ladders up the hatchway and avoid 
the filth that trickled down. The contrast between this steamer 
and the Evening Star was much more marked than the distance 
between the passenger coach and the box car ; but our journey was 
so near an end that a few extra discomforts scarcely added to the 
already heavy load which was to drop from our shoulders in a 
few days. 

After the "James River," City Point, the flag of truce, the 
usual formalities, and the march to Richmond, the late inmate of 
Block II, Mess 3, drew his forced accumulations of pay and reg- 
istered at the Spottswood Hotel, paying sixty dollars per diem — 
not an exorbitant price when we consider that at the time a cord 
of wood on the lower Mississippi might without much exaggera- 
tion have been said to be the equivalent of a cord of Confederate 
money. 

Still the pay of a modest lieutenant would not justify a pro- 
longed stay at these figures ; and, finding myself seriously ill, 
without in the least suspecting the cause, I left by rail, going as 
far as Charlotte, N. C, where that mode of transportation came 
to an abrupt termination. 

Blazing with fever and dazed from its effects, in company with 
several others who were bound for the extreme South, I took the 
tedious walk which slowly carried me through the State of South 
Carolina; and it was when nearing Milledgeville, Ga., that I 
thought for the first time that the eruption which had made its 
appearance on my body was in some manner connected with the 
smallpox on the steamer, and all doubts, if any existed, were dis- 
pelled when, on reaching Montgomery, Ala., I was ordered to the 
pesthouse. 

It was in April, 1865, that General Wilson captured the place; 
but, thanks to the pesthouse, backed by a parole. I was unmo- 



PLAIN LIVING AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND. 253 

lested. and once more started for home. I was indeed a veritable 
tramp — walking or having an occasional lift on a wagon and 
wholly dependent for food on the bounty of such as lived on my 
line of march, often scanty, for the South had been raided until 
it seemed as though all had been swept away. Tt was when near- 
ing Jackson, Miss., that I learned of Appomattox, and that our 
service had been in vain ; that the voluntary contribution of death 
and suffering had been given to a "Lost Cause." We were all 
l)risoners of war. 

Two years to the month had passed since I was locked up in 
Port Hudson, and during that period I had heard actually nothing 
from my home. I opened the gate and, walking up the lane that 
led to the house, could see the female portion of the family sit- 
ting on the gallery, none missing. In fact, there was a little 
niece that had put in an appearance since my departure. Soldiers 
were too common a sight to excite curiosity; but a half look of 
recognition swept over their faces, and as they rose from their 
seats to get a better view I dropped m\' valise and sang out : 
"Come on ; it's me !" I know I should have said, "It is T," but I 
didn't. 

Then followed a rush and a hugging match, in which the odds 
were four to one against me. 

This happened over twenty-five years ago, and I am not ex- 
changed ^-ct. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

Personal Stories of Camp Chase. 

Diary of Capt. A. S. McNeil— Mii:e ^Months a Prisoner at Camp Chase- 
An Unbiased Story of Prison Life— Going Home at Last— Story of R. 
H. Strother in Prison at the Same Time as Captain McNeil— Shooting 
at Prisoners— The Narrative of Lieutenant Mitchell— He Tells of Lieu- 
tenant Grasty's Escape — How Captain Herbert Came to Camp Chase— 
A Pleasant Deputy Sheriff — The Effects of Overeating. 

The goodly town of Bristol lies in Tennessee and Virginia. 
One of the well-known business men of the place is Capt. A. S. 
McXTeil, W'ho in 1864 was a prisoner at Camp Chase. The Cap- 
tain was a member of the Forty-Fifth \^irginia Regiment. This 
regiment was at Cloyd's farm, near Dublin, \"a., on May 9. 1864, 
where it met a heavy force of Federals in an engagement, and 
Captain McNeil was made a prisoner, as were sixty-one of his 
regiment. In all, two hundred and seventy-five prisoners made 
a long and weary march of ten days, during which time twenty 
made their escape. 

The Captain placed at the disposal of the author the diary kept 
during his imprisonment at Camp Chase, with a brief account of 
the trip to the prison. 

They boarded a boat at Charleston on the 22d, and on the 23d 
arrived at Gallipolis. From there they went up the Ohio River 
to Wheeling. At this point the diary says : "We Rebels attracted 
a great deal of attention, and the wharf was lined wath women, 
children, and old men, looking, probably, to. see if some of their 
friends were among the prisoners." 

From Wlieeling they went down the river a few miles to Bel- 
lair;e, where they went aboard a train for Columbus. 

Captain McNeil describes the appearance of the prison, which 
need not be repeated. The term used, both North and South, for 
a new prisoner was "fresh fish," and the diary says: 

We "fresh fish" were put on Giddings Street. This prison con- 
tains some three acres, inclosed inside a plank wall, with sixty- 
four houses in it and twenty men to a house. My residence is 



PERSONAL srORIliS OF CAMP CHASE. 255 

Giddings Street, Mess 57. west end of prison, near the wall. 
Gave our money to Lieutenant Sankey, who gave receipts for 
same. I found, to my surprise, that many prisoners were called 
"razorbacks," men who were anxious to take the oath of alle- 
giance ; but it seems that the privilege had played out, and I was 
glad of it. 

Quoting from the diary, he states: 

.•\ man who will fight two, three, or four years and then leave 
his country is not to be depended upon. We have a house ser- 
geant and one street sergeant to superintend the street and draw 
the rations, make details, etc. 1 was appointed street sergeant, and 
soon grew familiar with my duties. The position is one that keeps 
me very busy, but one which helps pass the time away very well. 
1 have one hundred and twenty-one on this street to look after and 
to draw rations, wood, and blankets for. When I draw these 
rations, etc., I divide tlic same with the house sergeants, and they 
give them to the men or arrange it to suit themselves. We are 
getting sugar, coffee, vinegar, beef, bacon, rice, hominy, one loaf 
of bread or ration of corn meal, and soap. 

May 2/. — Only have one dollar in gold, twenty-tivc cents in 
silver, and seventy-five cents in greenbacks. Think I will try and 
learn to make rings, as we can buy buttons from the sutler, also 
files and sandpaper. 

May 28. — Roll call and a call for men who wish to take the 
oath, or "swallow the puppy," as the boys call it. There are men 
here who applied to take the oath six months ago. This surprised 
me, but out of such a number of men one might expect some 
"razorbacks." Some men have been here thirteen months and 
are still "bully" for Jeff. 

May 2Q. — Nice day ; the sun seems to rise when it ought to set. 
The days are very warm and the nights cool — drew fifty blankets 
to-day. Everything seems to go on very well, more so than one 
not in prison would think. Everything has to move like clock- 
work, and orders are very strict. Two Irishmen to-day, belong- 
ing to Mess 57, closed their door and fought for half an hour — 
neither one badly hurt. 

I do not know what T will do when I get out of clothes and to- 
bacco. Money is very scarce and worth more than I ever real- 
ized before. No papers are allowed to come in the prison, but 
plenty of reports of various kinds are circulated. 

In 1862 the prisoners bought ])apers whenever they desired 

of the sutlei". 

May ?/. — A lieutenant and a lady appeared on the parapet and 
walked around the prison. It seemed to amuse them to look at 
lis Rebs and view our awful condition. Some of our men were 
t)arc — doing their washing, etc. Ilicy have a splendid band here, 



J 56 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

which plays every evening- at sunset at the east end of the 
prison. 

Tliiirsday. June 2. — Rained a nice shower, street muddy. 
Had a visit from an Alabama friend. Four ''razorbacks" went 
out. A "razorback" came into my mess, cursing Jefif Davis and 
the government generally. Halterman, of the Sixty-Second A''ir- 
ginia, and I politely put him out of the shanty. 

Friday, the ^rf. — Drew rations — no sugar, no coffee, no candles ; 
rations shorter than ever before. 

Saturday, 4th. — A report is current that the "razorbacks" are to 
be moved out of this prison. 

Sunday, jtb. — Cleaned the street and had inspection. There 
was another fight in Mess 57, between two Irishmen. Rooney 
cut the other one badly in several places with a knife. The Con- 
federate surgeon dressed the wounds. 

Thursday, Qth. — There is a call for volunteers to go into the 
gunboat service; good many joining; they get $500 bounty. 

Wednesday, ijth. — Alyself, J. Crockett, two men from I>oui- 
siana, and two Irishmen began to dig a hole to escape ; four men 
scaled the wall and got out, but were caught and brought back. 

Saturday, i8th. — Report of an exchange; ''razorbacks" reported 
our tunnel, and we had to fill it up. We had but ten feet to dig 
until we would have been outside the wall. Another tunnel was 
nearly coiupleted from ^less C^o. but the traitors reported it. 

About this time {]n\\ 15) the prison was enlarged, and the Cap- 
tain and his mess moved into the new place bag and baggage. In 
this prison there were about five acres. Instead of barracks, how- 
ever, there were tents. There was not a house. There were some 
seventeen hundred men in the prison at this time. Captain McNeil 
was quite ill for several days. Soon after this a call came to the 
prisoners to volunteer to build quarters. They were offered full 
rations and good clothing. 

July 2. — Rained all night ; nice day follow'S. I am on the top 
of a new building, looking out into the world once more ; have 
a splendid, view; country very level. I am spending some of the 
happiest moments of my prison life ; see a woman, who looks 
charming to a poor prisoner shut out from the world and society. 

Sunday, July 5. — Very warm. One hundred and eighteen new 
prisoners bring good news. 

Monday, July 4. — There is a roar of artillery at Coluiubus. A 
great celebration is going on there to-day. I am busy making 
rings. When at 9 o'clock wagons came in with wood, some forty 
Rebs charged the gate. The guards on the parapet began to 
fire on the men; fire continues all around the parapet. I jumped 
u]) and ran out of my tent ; I saw a sentinel with his gun up : he 



PERSOXAL STORIES OF CAMP CHASE. 257 

fired; I ran up to the gate. All of ns were ordered to return to 
our quarters, or were told that they would fire on us. As firing 
continues and is heard in the distance, there is great excitement, 
and no rations are to be issued to those who charged the gate for 
two days. One man was wounded and found lying close by the 

Tuesday. July 5. — IJeautiful morning. Lxcitement continues. 
Xo news. (J God. deliver us from this awful place I 

TJiiirsday. July 7. — For the first time in this prison, we had roll 
call. We are ordered to remain on the north side of the ditch 
runnng through the center of the prison, east and west. Cloyd, 
from Wilson County, Tenn.. was shot through the leg for trying 
to cross. He says he did not hear the order. His leg was ampu- 
tated. His father was shot on the 4th instant, and his arm ampu- 
tated. 

Saturday, July q. — Have been a prisoner two months to-day. 
The time seems as long as six months. We turned over our 
blankets and cooking vessels, and drew an equal amount. I ke])t 
two extra blankets. 

July J?. — Getting better. Two meii shot to-day — one in the 
breast, the other in the thigh. Leg amputated. They were shot 
for throwing out a cup of water against orders. Both men were 
wounded by one ball. 

Wednesday, July 20. — Working hard making rings. Sell them 
readily for fifty cents each. Moving into our new houses. They 
are one hundred feet long by eighteen wide, and contain one hun- 
dred and ninety-six men — terribly crowded. 

Friday, July 2Q. — An order is issued prohibiting the sale of a 
great many things. There are two very good eating saloons here. 
We can send out and Iniy anything we wish to eat. 

August I. — Cloud}-. Imvc hundred fresh prisoners from John- 
ston's army arrived to-day. They were all in fine spirits. 

Saturday. August 6. — Xice day. Tw<t hundred prisoners came 
to-day. Grant was terribl}' defeated at Petersburg. 

August 10. — Will be exchanged soon. (lOt a letter from Unclf 
John D. \'incil, who sent me ten dollars ; also his photograph. 
Met a cousin from Alabama. Still working hard making rings. 

Friday, August 12. — Four hundred new prisoners came to-day. 
several from mv native countrw Heard from home. Glad to see 
them all in good s])irits. 

September 2. — Sentinels very talkative — all for McClellan. 

September 5. — Xo eatables allowed to come in here only on 
approval of the doctor. Hard times will be with tis now. I am 
walking five times around the wall every evening. I feel much 
better by taking exercise. 

Friday, August q. — Smallpox raging. 

Manv of the entries in this diar\- during this time related to 



258 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

reports from the front, about the armies and what they were 
doing. In the meantime one hundred prisoners were taken out 
for exchange. On October 4 there were sixteen cases of small- 
pox in the prison. Out of one hundred and ninety-six cases, thir- 
teen died. On October 8 it snowed, and there was only one stove 
to each house. 

November i. — Rations were better than for some time. 
Noveniher 8. — This is the great day in the North — the election 
for President. God grant that something may be done to close 
this unhappy war ! 

Thursday, lOth.- — McClellan seven hundred ahead in Columbus, 
large majority in Cincinnati. Rations very short. 

lJ'ed)iesda\, i6tli. — Abe elected. Went out and drew a pair 
of pants and shirt; gave us splendid. Confederate gray. 

Monday, 21st. — I put on my new gray suit and gaiters yester- 
day ; felt like a man once more. Report is that we will get full 
rations once more. 

Thursday, Dec. i. — Talk of exchange. I get as much ^n- 
graving as I can do. Men go out every day by taking the oath. 
Rations are very, short. This is enough to try any man's pluck — 
get up hungry, stay hungry all day, and go to bed the same 
Avay. They promised us straw to sleep upon. The promise was 
all we got. 

Sunday, iSth. — The report is out that we are going to get bet- 
ter rations. This pleases the boys, for we are half starved. Ra- 
tions are sold to us at half price. 

Wednesday, 21st. — We had an election of officers to receive 
Confederate suppHes. Colonel Hawkins, Captain Smith, and 
Colonel Jose, of Arkansas, got the most votes. 

Thursday, ^.'rf.^Colonel Hawkins is making a speech, and says 
we will soon get plenty to eat. All in fine spirits, a smile on 
every man's face. 

Sunday, 2 jth. —ChvistYmiS day. Raining a little. Prison 
awful mudd}-. Have had a splendid dinner for the first time. 
We have one week's rations of beans and horniny. My mess 
has saved a spoonful of meal out of each man's rations for a 
month past, so we have four pints of meal and our day's rations. 
I think I never enjoyed a Christmas dinner as I did this one to- 
day. ^^'e had as much as we could eat for the first time for many 
long davs. 

Monday, 26th. — Mud four inches deep all over the prison; an 
aw^ful place. 

Saturday, 31st.— Colonel Mulford goes to Richmond to arrange 
for exchange. We are all in hopes he will succeed. 

186^. Sunday. January 7.— Snowed all night; eight inches 



PERSOXAL STORIES OF CAMP CHASE. 259 

deep ; drifted in places four and five feet deep. Drew molasses 
for the first time since being a prisoner. Rations short again. 

Tuesday, lyth. — Looks like all of Hood's army was coming 
here. 

Thursday, 26fh. — There are upward of five thousand men in 
this prison now. Thirt}-four men died in the last twenty-four 
hours. 

Suuday. jtli. — At 9 o'clock Lieutenant Sanke}' and several 
officers appeared on the parapet and, to our great surprise, said 
that all who wanted to go out on exchange 'come forward. There 
was yelling and cheering, and soon we became a solid mass of 
Rebels. Order was restored, and Lieutenant Sankey addressed 
the crowd. "Gentlemen," he said, ''the Colonel commanding this 
Post has received orders to make rolls for exchange in lots of 
five hundred from Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and 
Kentucky ; then the other States in rotation. All others from 
States not named will retire ; the others remain." It is impossi- 
ble to find language to express my feelings when I heard the offi- 
cer say "exchange." God speed the day when I shall be permit- 
ted to bid a final farewell to my long home in Camp Chase ! The 
first five hundred will leave ^Vednesday, and five hundred every 
other day. Hope that there is no humbug this time. 

Monday, 6th. — Still calling and making out rolls. Papers con- 
firm the exchange. ^Nlen still dying at a fearful rate. 

Tuesday, /tJu — A good many men are refusing to be ex- 
changed. Five hundred out of the first eight hundred signed the 
roll. They would rather be paroled. I don't see into that. 

JVednesday, 8th, has come and the first squad has not gone. 
Some two hundred have refused to go. Lieutenant Sankey says 
they will have to go if they don't get enough to exchange for their 
men. 

Sunday, 12th. — First five hundred have gone. This begins to 
look like exchange sure enough. 

Monday, i^fh. — I have been called and all who came with me. 

Tuesday, 14th.- — We signed the parole and are now ready to go. 

Thursday, 6th. — Had good rations of flour and beef. Squad 
ordered to be ready to leave for "Dixie" in the morning. 

Saturday, iStJi. — We are drawing fourteen ounces of flour per 
day. Very good. 

Sunday, lOth. — ^^^ H. Gose, of Tazewell, died last week. 

[XoTE. — In the, list of Confederate dead of Camp Chase the 
name of \\'. H. Gose, Sixteenth Mrginia Cavalry, will be found. 
He died February 10, 1865. and was buried in Grave 1144, as 
shown in the plat. — Editor.] 

Monday, 20th. — The sutler is selling" apples, potatoes, onions. 



26o THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

cabbage, parsnips, and turnips. He cannot or does not supply 
the demand. Every one crowds to the sutler's, so that it is almost 
impossible to get anything-. 

Saturday, 2f,th. — Third squad called. Lacked four names of 
reaching mine. Sadl}- disappointed. They have taken several of 
my mess, also m\- old friend and fellow-ringmaker. We have 
been working together now nine months. They call the roll al- 
phabetically — got down to L. One more letter is mine. 

February 28. — I am d()u])tful if I can sleep much to-night, so 
anxious am I to go. 

Weducsday, March i. — Report is that the exchange is pla\ed 
out. Many long faces to-day. 

Thursday. 2d. — Raining. Fourth squad called out. I was 
fifth name called. ( )ne hundred of the Eighty-Eighth ( )hio to 
guard us. Mud very deep. Arrived at Columbus ^it sundown. 
(jOt aboard box cars pretty well filled wath straw. 

There is much omitted from Captain McXeil's diarv. We an- 
ticipates its complete publication some day. 

Mr. R. H. Strother wrote a story of Camp Chase to the Confed- 
erate Veteran. The narrative, an interesting one, is as follows : 

I regret very much that I am unable to give you a detailed 
history of my stay in prison at Camp Chase. I can recall events 
better than dates. It has been a long time ago. I failed to keep 
a diary, and man}- things connected with my life in Camp Chase 
have passed from my memory. I am satisfied that a true history 
of prison life at Camp Chase would not be believed by a large 
number of people in the Northern States ; but whether they be- 
lieve it or not, those who were there and passed through the 
terrible sufiferings imposed upon them knc^w from sad experience 
that what they say is true. 

I enlisted in the Confederate army September 10, i8f)2, and 
left my home in Trimble County, Ky. I became a member of 
Company E, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry. Our command, up to 
the time of my capture, operated in Kentucky, Southern \ irginia, 
and Eastern Tennessee. 

I was captured in the Rheatown fight, in Tennessee, al)out 
October 13, 1863. and taken first, after capture, to (ireeneville, 
Tenn., then to Knoxville, where I remained until the first of 
November. Then, with about one hundred and fifty other pris- 
oners, I was sent to Xicholasville, Ky.. afoot: thence by rail- 
road to Covington, where I, with one or two t)thers. being sick. 
was left in the hosjMtal. I remained there until about the middle 
of December, 1863. I was then sent to Camp Chase. On the 
way stopped in Columbus and remained there three or four days 
in the barracks, then on to Camp Chase. ( )n my arrival at the 
IM'ison I was put in the hospital, in old Prison No. 2. In a short 



PERSONAL STORIES OF CAMP CHASE. 261 

time I was able to be on my feet again. I was then assigned 
to duty in the hospital, where I remained for a short while, and 
was then sent to one of the barracks in the prison. 

^^^len taps sounded at eight o'clock at night, all fire and light 
had to be extinguished : then the prisoners retired to their bunks 
to sleep, if they could. Imagine a man sleeping sweetly and com- 
fortably whose bed was a hard plank, and whose covering was 
one blanket, with the thermometer registering fifteen and twenty 
degrees below zero. Un the 31st of December, 1863, snow fell 
to the depth of several inches. That night the weather turned 
extremely cold, and New Year's day was known the country over 
as "the cold New Year s." 

On the morning of Januar\- i, 1864, an officer with guards 
came into the prison, and ordered the prisoners from their bar- 
racks, one mess at a time, under the pretext of searching for con- 
cealed arms. We had to form in line in front of our barrack 
and stand in the snow shoetop-deep, the coldest day I ever saw, 
for nearly an hour. Quite a number had their feet frozen and 
frosted, and I, for one, suffer from it to this day. The sequel 
proved that, instead of searching for w^eapons, they were search- 
ing for extra blankets ; and where there were found to be more 
blankets than men in a mess the extra blankets were taken away. 
I shall never forget the sufferings of that winter. In the spring 
following the prisoners, to change the monotony, concluded to 
organize a State government. We had in our prison then many 
distinguished men from the different Southern States. 

As well as I remember, Col. W. S. Hawkins, of Tennessee, 
■Maj. Sanders, of A'irginia, Gen. Robert \'ance, of North Carolina, 
and Col. Carter, of Tennessee, were the opposing candidates for 
Governor and Lieutenant Governor. On the day set for the 
election the prisoners got permission from the officers in com- 
mand to allow them to meet 01 masse and hear the different 
candidates present their claims. Quite a number of the Federal 
officers and a large number of ladies appeared on the parapet 
and listened, seemingly with great interest, to the speeches, as 
the candidates were orators of note. After the speaking the ballot 
was taken, and Hawkins and Carter were declared elected, and 
installed as Governor and Lieutenant Governor. INIembers were 
elected to the State Senate and Legislature ; courts were estab- 
lished, from police court to the Supreme Court ; a standing army 
organized, with Alaj. Lamar Fontaine as commander-in-chief. 
A daily paper was established, entitled. The Rebel Si.vfy-Four 
Pounder: or. The Camp Chase Wvitilator, and had for its editors 
and correspondents talented and able men. There were but three 
or four copies of the paper put out each day. They were posted 
on bulletin boards in different parts of the prison. It was amus- 
ing to see the boys gather around these bulletin boards to read 



262 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

the morning- news. We all enjoyed tiie novelty of our g^>^•ern- 
ment, for it served to keep our minds from our surroundings ; 
but our government lasted only a short time. I don't know why, 
unless those in authority saw we were deriving some pleasure 
and amusement from it, and concluded we were not suffering 
sufficiently ; so they forbade the prisoners collecting in groups of 
more than two or three persons. Then, as we could no longer 
enjoy the privileges of our government, we had to submit to that 
of Uncle Sam. 

During the spring and summer of 1864 quite a number were 
transferred from Prison No. 2 to Prison No. 3, about a half mile 
north. Here we underwent the same treatment and the same 
monotony as Prison No. 2. During this season, Prisons X^os. i 
and 2 were remodeled, and a new prison built at the west end 
of Prison No. 2. They were all in a row, with a partition 
fence between them fourteen feet high, on which was a parapet 
for the guards who. in patroling their beats, could see what was 
going on in each prison, as well as the guards on the outer walls. 
After the walls w'ere placed around the new prison, and before 
the barracks were completed, the prisoners from old Prison No. 3 
were removed to new Prison No. 3, a great many having to occupy 
tents until the barracks were completed. The barracks in the 
new were superior to those in the old prison. [They have been 
described elsewhere. — Author.] 

The prisoners had to do all the nursing of sick. Doctors were 
provided by the government. They made their rounds in the 
morning. The death rate was at times very high. In February, 
1864, if I mistake not. it was 600. -\t times we were treated 
humanely; at others barbarously. Whether it was the fault of 
the government or the officers in command, I am unable to say. 
We were not allowed to have over one dollar at a time by the 
prison regulations; and if a prisoner succeeded in concealing his 
money when searched on entering prison, he could m^t use it 
if it was in bills or coins of a larger denomination than a dollar, 
for the sutler was ordered to confiscate all bills of a larger de- 
nomination when you went to purchase from him. 

At times the prisoners could buy eatables from the sutler ; at 
other times he was allowed to sell only paper, envelopes, stamps, 
tobacco, and articles such as were needed in our wardrobe to 
cleanse ourselves. Occasionally we were allowed to receive boxes 
of provisions and clothing from our friends. 

In our correspondence we were limited for a long time to v.-rit-- 
ing one letter per week and only one page of note paper. But I 
often sent six or eight and some of them four pages of foolscap, 
and they were not examined ; but I will not give my friend away. 
He may yet be living, and I would not like for him to be called 
a traitor in his old davs. He was true to his countrv. but humane 



PERSOXAL STORIES OF CAMP CHASE. 263 

t(y prisoners, and I shall cherish the memory of that man through 
life. 

I have not mentioned the dark side of prison life in Camp 
Chase. I wish that I had never witnessed it. I should 'ike to 
think better of my fellow-mam When, without cause, you see 
men shot down by your side, it is awful. 

One day while I was conversing with a young man from Ten- 
nessee, standing near the center of the prison, I heard the report 
of a gun. The young man with whom I was talking reeled and 
fell, shot by one of the guards; and why, we never knew. He 
was shot through the leg, between the knee and thigh. JTio bene 
was shivered and he lost his leg. He is still living. On anolher 
occasion a young man went to. one of the wells and, after drinking, 
turned to leave, when he was shot. The ball passed through his 
arm between the shoulder and elbow, then through his side and 
out through his arm again between the elbow and wrist. The 
same ball passed on through a tent, wounding a man who was sit- 
ting in the tent reading his Bible. He had his left hand resting- 
on his left leg. The ball cut off his little finger and passed 
through his leg, which had to be amputated. This was without 
any provocation. 

On another occasion one of the prisoners was killed at night 
while sitting by the stove. It was against the prison regulations 
for fire to be kept burning in stoves after 8 p.m. On the night 
mentioned the prisoner was sick and nearly frozen, it being very 
cold, when he made a fire in the stove and was quietly sitting- 
by it. The sentinel, seeing the smoke from the stovepipe, got 
the proper range, fired, and killed the poor fellow. Many were 
the shots fired into barracks at night, sometimes wounding some 
one. Many were the attempts made to escape, but few were suc- 
cessful. Tunnel after tunnel was made, but before reaching the 
outside was discovered. There were spies in the prison who re- 
ported. 

On one occasion in our barracks we discovered one of the spies. 
That night after taps he was taken from his bunk, a blanket 
wrapped around his head, and he was plunged into a barrel of 
water that stood at the corner of the building ; but before he had 
been in the barrel long enough to drown, another spy that we 
had not found out reported to the guard and he was rescued. 
But it was the last seen of the gentleman in that prison. 

T could give many other instances of cruelty practiced on the 
prisoners, but I forbear. 

I left Camp Chase in the spring of 1865 and came to iny Ken- 
tucky home, where I have resided since ; but the cause for which 
Ave fought is still dear to me — the principles of a true republic. 

In a letter to Col. Knauss he wrote : 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



1 know of }oii from what I have read concerning the interest 
you have taken in the graves of the Confederates at Camp Chase, 
and have wished that I could be present sometime on Decoration 
Day. Your friends in the South are legion. ]\lay God bless and 
prosper vou ! is the wish of your unknown friend. 




LIEUT. D. T. MITCHELL. 



D. T. ^Mitchell, a planter and merchant living at Highlandale, 
-Miss., has prepared for this volume the following interesting 
little stor}' of his escape from Camp Chase Prison: 

In June, 1864, we had a severe fight at Mt. Sterling, Ky., in 
which, our loss was very heavy. Lieut. Samuel G. Grasty, of 
Danville, \"a., and myself were wounded and left on the field, 
being carried to the hospital in town and kept for some two 



PERSOXAL STORIES Of CAMP CHASE. 265 

months. We were moved then to Lexington and there kept in 
the hospital a few days, then to Louisville a few days ; and our 
wounds still improving, we were taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, 
landing there sometime in August. About that time they were 
sending all the officers to Johnson's Island, and immediately on 
leaving Mt. Sterling Grasty proposed to get the officer in charge 
to change the roll and put us down as sergeants, to 
which I readily agreed ; and we had to plead with them 
very hard to get them to do it, by telling them that the mis- 
take occurred by our acting as lieutenants in the absence of 
the regular lieutenants, and they got to calling us lieutenants. 

His (Lieutenant Grasty 's) object in the matter was then to 
keep from going to Johnson's Island, for if they sent us to any 
inland prison, we would have a better chance to make our escape, 
as the exchange of prisoners had been discontinued, and the idea 
of staying in prison indefinitel}- was horrid. That winter of 
1864-65, when it was so cold the Federal authorities did not have 
so many guards upon the parapets, Grasty watched all one morn- 
ing, and, as he thought the time had come for him to try the 
hazardous undertaking, he came into the barrack and said he 
was going to make the effort. Not one of us but thought that 
he would be captured, or more probably killed. I had some good 
citizens' clothes sent to me from my friends in Kentucky, and w^e 
dressed him up pretty well, and a Federal blue coat and pants 
over them, and I wrote him a pass myself, and it read about thus: 

"He.^douarters. Camp Chase, Ohio. 

"All guards will pass Corporal . 

"Lieutenant Sankev, Officer of the Guard." 

I have forgotten the name I substituted for that of Grasty ; but 
I remember that there was a Lieutenant Sankey who made his 
appearance on the parapet very often and sometimes threw us 
our letters, and we all knew^ him well. 

After we had finished dressing him. the great object was a little 
greenback money, in case he should get through. 

As it happened. I carried some in there with me. I had it 
under the lapel of my vest. It had been given to me by friends 
while in the Louisville ( Ky. ) hospital, and on entering Camp 
Chase I pulled out a two-dollar bill, handed it to the officer, and 
told him that was all I had. He rubbed his hands over my clothes 
a little, and said : "That fellow has been in the hospital ; he hasn't 
got anything. Let him in." I then had forty dollars secreted on 
my person. I then gave Grasty the last ten dollars I had. The 
clothes and money all ready, then it was for two brave men to 
go to the parapet with him and lift him up high enough so he 



2 66 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

could reach the parapet with his hands, pull up, and, jump to the 
ground, and go walking along the same as a guard, corporal, 
officer, or any other soldier. The chance Grasty wanted was just 
as a guard turned to walk the other way on his beat. He and 
his two men then jumped to the parapet, and up they hoisted him. 
He went right along following the guard. A man by the name 
of Penn, from Tennessee, was one of the mess who helped, him 
up; the other I have forgotten. The reason I was not the 
other man was because I had not entirely recovered from my spell 
of sickness. It was so bitter cold that the guard had the cape of 
his overcoat entirely over his head, so that he never saw or noticed 
Grasty, and neither did any one else. I learned afterwards that 
they found the Federal blue coat and pants where he pulled them 
ofif and threw them away. He wrote several letters to me, and 
dated them Quebec, Canada; but they were always mailed in New 
York, where I knew he had friends. This was the second time 
he made his escape. 

This is as brief as I can make it, and exactly as it occurred, 
though many little incidents are omitted. I was brevetted Second 
Lieutenant, Company H, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A.. 
Born and reared in Henry County, Ky. Was then in m}' twenty- 
fourth year of age; now in my sixty-fourth, this September, 1904.. 

D. T. Mitchell. 

The following is told by Capt. W. H. Herbert, at present Dep- 
uty Mayor of Sandusky, Ohio, prominent in business and a prom- 
inent Elk. The Southerner who may make a pilgrimage to 
Johnson's Island will find a" good friend in Captain Herbert. He 
was not confined upon the Island at any time, as his narrative will 
show. A copy of a special order assigning the Captain (then 
Lieutenant ) to the command of a number of exchanged prisoners 
if here given, he having kept it through all the years: 

Headquarters Ex-Prisoners, Jackson, Miss., 
December 9, 1862. 
Special Order No. 50. 

Lieut. W. H. Herbert. 

Company A, Eighty-Ninth A'irginia Regiment, is hereby or- 
dered to take charge of two commissioned, four noncommissioned 
officers, and forty-two (42) privates and proceed without delay 
and report them for duty at Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson's head- 
quarters, they having been duly exchanged. 

Quartermaster will furnish necessary transportation. 

Bv order Brig. Gen. D. Ruggles. 

A. A. and Inspector General. 



PERSONAL STORIES OF CAMP CHASE. _ 267 

In speaking of the time he was at Camp Chase, in 1862, Lieu- 
tenant Herbert says: 

Forty-two years have elapsed since then, and the boys who were 
with me are either all old men now or have passed over to "the 
home beyond the tide." I have dwelt at length on our trip from 
Wheeling to Camp Chase, for the reason that it is one of the pleas- 
ant events in my war experience, and have onl\- the kindest re- 
membrances for those who entertained us so royally. 

The latter part of October, 1862, J. Biddle Leopard and I were 
captured on the Bloomer}- Gap Road, four miles northwest of 
Pughtown and about fifteen miles from Winchester, Ya... by a 
raiding party, consisting of a portion of the First New York 
Cavalry, under command of Major Bailey. (Jn the same raid 
three others were rounded up — viz., Bob Heironimus, Jake Hei- 
ronimus, and ^Ir. Linthicum. We were taken to Paw Paw Sta- 
tion, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, thence to Cumberland. 
Md., and Wheeling, W. Va. There we were joined by a Ah-. 
Brandreth, of Mississippi, Jim Daily, of Cumberland, Md., C. C. 
Alartin, of Virginia, and four others whose names I have forgotten. 
W^e remained in Wheeling prison several days, leaving there one 
evening, the lirst part of November, under a guard of seven for 
Camp Chase, Ohio. 

On reaching Newark a gentleman coming into the car took a 
seat just in front of me. On the way to Columbus we fell into 
conversation, when I told him I was a Confederate prisoner. He 
was surprised and wanted to know how many there were of us. 
I gave him the number — twelve prisoners and seven guards. 
Then he said; "When we get to Columbus I would like to do 
something for you bo\"s. If we find a restaurant open, I'll set up 
supper for the party." I referred him to the officer in charge, 
who, upon being informed that the guard was to be included in 
the supper, gave his consent. 

W'e landed in Columbus about 11:30 at night, marched u]> 
High Street, looking for a restaurant. Luckily we found one on 
the corner of High Street, opposite the Statehouse, that was still 
open. It was in the basement, entrance down steps on the street 
leading out to Camp Chase. Here we had a supper fit for the 
gods. Our host, who proved himself a royal entertainer, was 
then deputy sherift* of Franklin County. 

There was a bar in connection with the restaurant, and while 
supper was being prepared "John Barleycorn" flowed freely to 
those who washed to imbibe. We all seemed that way inclined, 
some more so than others. Several Union officers who had been 
captured and released on parole came in, and when they found 
we were Confederate prisoners they were exceedingly kind. 



268 THE SrORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The} requested the proprietor to give us the best of everything 
the house had to offer. 

About that time General AlcClellan had been reUeved from 
the command of the Army of the Potomac and General Burnside 
appointed to the place. These officers were strong McClellan 
men, and were loud in their opposition to the change. 

After we all had had our supper we took one farewell drink 
''from the same canteen" before starting on the tramp to Camp 
Chase. The most of the party were groggy and wabbled along 
as best they could. As we emerged from the west end of the 
covered bridge we found that one of the prisoners and one of 
the guards were past locomotion ; they were smiply paralyzed. 
The officer in charge had them carried to the roadside at the end 
of the bridge wall and left them lying there, the balance taking 
up the line of tramp to the prison, which was reached in due time. 
\Vhen the roll of prisoners was called and one found missing, the 
officer said he was left by the roadside, too sick to travel, and that 
he had left a guard with him. 

As day was breaking we marched through the gate to our quar- 
ters in Prison 2, ]\Iess No. 12. About nine o'clock the same 
morning a cart came driving in with our absent brother. What 
became of the guard, I never learned. A Major Zinn was then 
in command of the prison. 

The prison was a long barracks built of rough boards, one 
storv high, running lengthwise of the inclosure, divided off into 
apartments, each containing twelve bunks, six on a side, three 
men to the bunk, thirty-six comprising the mess. 

A high board fence surrounded the inclosure, at the top of 
which was a walk used by the guard, and at intervals were small 
shelters used in inclement weather. The roll of the prisoners 
was called very morning and evening" by the officer from the top 
of this fence, and all letters were distributed from there also. One 
of the sad incidents that occurred was the killing of a citizen- 
prisoner from Kentucky and the wounding of a citi?en-prisonor 
from Airginia by the guard one night after taps had sounded. In 
each mess was a small cook stove, which sat in the ruiddle of the 
floor with mouth toward the door. When taps were sounded 
the guard would call: "Lights out!" On this occasion the light 
kept flickering from the stove mouth, which could be seen through 
the cracks between the boards. He called out again, "Lights out !" 
then he fired his gun into the mess where he saw the light, killing 
one man and wounding another. 

One of the funny incidents that occurred while I was there 
was that a woman was permitted to come inside to do washing 
for the prisoners. She would have her tubs just inside the dead 
line near the fence. Some soldiers were fond of their toddy, and 
i?enerallv sfot it bv hook or crook : so thev worked on the tender 



PERSONAL STORIES OP CAMP CHASE. 269- 

sympathies of this washerwoman, and she would bring in a bottle 
now and then concealed under her dress, and when the opportunity 
offered they got it. One morning she came in with a quart in 
one of those old-style flat glass bottles, with General Jackson's 
head on one side and an ear of corn on the other. The bottle 
was not quite full. She began her washing. The guard on duty 
kept close watch, so that the party for whom the whisky was in- 
tended could not get it at once. She kept on rubbing the clothes. 
The motion agitated the whisky, creating a gas in the bottle, and 
there was an explosion like unto the report of a mountain How- 
itzer. The guard turned out, and, when the cause of the ex- 
plosion was solved, the old lady was escorted through the gate 
1(1 the outside. She never returned while I was there. After this 
occurrence the sutler would furnish spirits on the sly. labeled 
"Butter." at two dollars the quart. 

About two hundred of us left Camp Chase the latter pari of 
November, 1862. with three days" rations, via Dayton ^a^A C\•^- 
ci.nnati. for Cairo, 111. Here we were joined by boys from John- 
son's Island and Louisville — about eleven hundred in all. Vt 
Cairo we took steamboats, convoyed by ironclads, and passed 
down the river to \'icksburg, where we landed on December 
9, the last exchange of prisoners at Mcksburg, as General Grant 
began operations -there shortlv after. At Jackson, Miss., the 
boys were apportioned off to their different commands, each C(jm- 
mand placed in charge of an officer, who was furnished transpor- 
tation in kind and ordered to report with them to their headquar- 
ters. 

We of Stonewall Jackson's Corps, forty-nine all told, reached 
his headquarters, near Fredericksburg, Xz., December 26, and got 
what was left of the Christmas turkey, having traveled at least 
three thousand miles to reach headquarters, when, by going to Old 
Point Comfort when captured, we could have gotten there in one 
hundred and fifty ; but such are the ways of war — "long way 
'round." 

The Mr. Brandreth mentioned above, from Mississippi, was 
originally from Springfield, Ohio, having migrated in the fifties 
to Canton, Miss., where he had a drug store when the war opened. 
Samuel Shellebarger, who represented the Springfield ( Ohio ) 
District in Congress in 1862, was married to Brandreth's sister. 
The Jim Dailey mentioned was a brother of Miss Dailey, of Cum- 
berland, ^Id.. who married General Crook, the Indian fighter, just 
after the war closed. Jim Dailey was with McXeal when Gen- 
erals Crook and Kelley were captured, in February, 1865, at 
Cumberland, Aid. 



CHAPTER XX. 

JoHxsoN''s Island Stories, New and Old. 

Incidents of the Island Prison First Told in the Confederate Veteran — 
Pen Pictures of the Place in 1864. 

In the concltiding' chapter 011 Johnson's Island mention is made 
and quotation given from an article printed in the Veteran which 
seems to have raised a commotion in some parts of the South. 
There could have been nothing- truer than this article, if it had 
been confined to the year 1862 and the greater part of 1863. The 
letters given in this volume from Camp Chase in 1862 tell the 
story plainly. There is no doubt that in 1864 the situation was 
■different in many respects. It would not pay any one at this time 
to try to fix the blame. One would probably have the same 
opinion when the unprofitable argument ceased. Parts of these 
letters are quoted for their historic interest, but many of the com- 
ments which are ridiculous are left out. 

During the earlier days of the prison at Johnson's Island the 
Sandusky Register complained that the imprisonment of the 
Southern officers was rendered farcical, outside of the fact that 
they were deprived of their liberty. Their Northern friends 
shipped them clothing, fruits, .game, wine, and all kinds of pro- 
visions. 

This was finally stopped by confiscating the provisions and 
hquors and giving the same to the guards. When the terrible 
stories of Andersonville were first circulated in the North, great 
■quantities of provisions and clothing were sent there from the 
North, but never reached their destination. 

Lieut. T. B. Jackson, of Norfolk, \'a., in the J^eteraji, says: 

I was carried from David's Island Hospital, New York, in the 
latter part of September, 1863, being left wounded on the Gettys- 
burg field in Pickett's charge July 3, 1863, with some two hundred 
wounded officers. I reached Johnson's Island about the ist of 
October, and had scarcely enough clothing to cover me. All that 
I received from October, 1863, tmtil March 22, 1865, when pa- 



JOH.ySOX'S ISLAND STORIES, NEll' AXD OLD. 271 

Toled and sent South, was such as came from Southern sympa- 
thizers. 

My case was an exception as to the receipt of clothing ; for of 
the forty officers in Room 4 of Block 10 not more than five 
received a stitch of any description during the sixteen months 
they were in the prison, and those not handy with the needle were 
more or less ragged. 

There were some in the prison who had friends in the North, 
and from them received clothing and occasionally a box of pro- 
visions, but these were rare cases. 

Capt. J. II. George contributed an article to the October (1900) 
I'ctcran, which follows: 

I was among the first prisoners that were confined at Johnson's 
Island. I was captured at Fort Donelson, imprisoned at Camp 
Chase, and from there was transferred to Johnson's Island, where 
I remained to the ist of September. 1862; hence I was an eye- 
witness to much that took place on the Island during that time. 
Your correspondent states that we were provided with suitable 
clothing : while if there was a garment furnished to any of the 
prisoners, I did not see or hear of it. Those who were fortunate 
enough to -have money bought clothing, but those who had none 
did without. This writer states that our tables were furnished 
with an abundance of substantial and many luxuries. 

All luxuries that I knew of were paid for by those who happened 
to have money, and always at double prices. Not a pound of 
flour did we get only as we bought it from the sutler at five dollars 
per barrel, when it was selling at Sandusky City at two and a half 
to three dollars per barrel. We were prohibited from buying from 
-any one except the sutler, who w^as placed there by the commander 
of the prison. Colonel Pierson had leased the privileges of sut- 
ler from the government, and the luxuries furnished by him were 
hard-tack, poor beef, with bacon and coffee once a week. 

In this same issue Lieut. E. D. Patterson, then of the Ninth 
Alabama, now President of the Bank of Savannah, says : 

No one who passed through the year 1864 in prison has for- 
gotten, or ever will forget, the awful suffering from cold and 
liunger experienced there^ During the summer and fall of that 
year the newspapers of the North were publishing blood-curdling- 
details of the treatment of prisoners at Andersonville. and our ra- 
tions were reduced to an amount that was barely sufficient to sus- 
tain life. Boxes of edibles sent by friends on the outside were 
declared contraband. 

I used to think if those clamoring so loudly for retaliation 
■could look in upon prison life and see men staggering about, weak 
iind hollow-eyed from hunger, searching in vain in the slop bar- 



272 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

rcls tor scraps and eating rats to keep soul and body together. 
they would have been satisfied. 

I was a prisoner on Johnson's Island for about twenty-two 
months, and helped to nurse and bury many of those who sleep 
their last, long- sleep upon the Island, and I have no doubt that 
the lives of several of them could have been saved if they had 
been furnished with ])ro])er medicines and nourishing food. 

The J'cfcraii for March. 1891, has a letter from A. \\\ Side- 
bottom, Chattanooga. Tenn., from which a few extracts are used: 

Like Comrade Patterson, I think nothing is to be gained l)v 
recalling the wrongs done to prisoners to either side ; but, if we 
do speak of them, let us have the truth. At this late date I am 
not disposed to do any one the least injustice without a jiroper 
hearing. Telling the truth never does that. Therefore, I would 
suggest that }"our July correspondent, over his signature, tell us 
who he is, what command he belonged to, and at what time he 
was a prisoner on Johnson's Island, and how long he was confined 
there. 

The finer feelings of the people. North and South, were not 
so blunted in 1861-62 as they were later on. Prisoners were no 
doubt better treated, and some Confederates might have met with 
unexpected kind treatment by the North, and your correspondent 
may have been one of that number. 

As to what we were given per day to eat, and how much of 
it, it is immaterial now ; but I could have eaten at one time all I 
drew for two days. I have seen men eat at one sitting all they 
drew' for three days, and take the chances of finding bones, catch- 
ing rats, etc., to tide over until rations were issued again. 

Most of us used tobacco in some shape, but were not allowed 
to bu\' it ; but, thanks to a Bluecoat who slipped me in half a plug 
or so at a time in exchange for finger rings, a few of us en- 
joyed that luxury as long as it lasted. Not a penny's worth of 
anything was sold at the sutler's shop as long as I was there, nor 
were we allowed to receive anything from home, friends, or an} 
one else. 

Early in 1865, in answer to complaints from the inside as to 
what we were given to eat and the small quantity of it, from a 
stairway inside the prison overlooking quite a crowd of us. Colonel 
Hill, commander of the Post, said he knew our complaints were 
just, that we were not being given enough to eat. but he was pow- 
erless to do more than he was then doing. I believed then he 
spoke the truth, and believe so yet. 

In preparing this history no attempt has been made to shield 
anv official who was unnecessarily unkind. Was it possible to- 



JOHNSON'S ISLAND STORIES, NEW AND OLD. 273 

learn the name of any guard who shot at an unarmed prisoner, he 
would be named ; but it would have been better had these letters 
never been read. They are here because it would not do to have 
it said that an attempt had been made to keep such pictures from 
the public. One would gladly forget such things. Most peo- 
ple who know the author believe that he prefers to re- 
member the noble rather than the ignoble; but he is pre- 
senting the story of these prisons for Northern readers as well as 
Southern, and he seeks to tell the truth. 

That circumstances color one's views of situations was never 
better illustrated than by the story of Maj. James A. Wilson, of 
Colonel Cluke's regiment of Kentucky cavalry. Colonel Cluke 
died at Johnson's Island, but not of starvation or exposure. The 
Colonel was well-to-do and had money and every luxury that 
money could buy in those days, and yet death came, just as it en- 
ters the home of rich and poor alike to-day. 
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CHAPTER XXI. 

A Confederate Spy in Ohio. 

Promoted from First Duty Sergeant to Major — Scouting in the Moun- 
tains — A Narrow Escape — Recruiting for the Confederate Army in 
Ohio — Meeting the Knights of the Golden Circle — Makes Columbus 
His Headquarters for a Time — Visits Camp Chase — A Peep into the 
Prison — Getting Confederate Recruits through the Lines — The Story 
of Major Marlowe. 

A. J. Marlowe now lives in the city of Columbus, Ohio. For 
four years he followed the fortunes of the Confederacy, a por- 
tion of which time he was engaged in the perilous duties of a spy. 

While this chapter is not strictly of the "Story of Camp Chase.*' 
it is kindred to the subject. 

In a brick cottage, 750 West Broad Street, the spy had his head- 
quarters. It is a one-story building and stands to-day looking 
much as it did forty years ago. Every prisoner on his way to 
Carnp Chase, during the time that Marlowe was in Columbus, 
passed by his door, while the spy, peering from the blinds, watched 
the march of his Southern comrades to Camp Chase. 

This, however, is anticipating the story which the Major was 
requested to relate for the readers of this volume. 

Major Marlowe's remarkable story is as follows : 

I enlisted early in the war in Company C, Second Virginia 
Infantry, and was made first duty sergeant, which position I held 
until the 23d day of May, 1863, when I was promoted to the 
rank of major and transferred to the Nineteenth Virginia Cav- 
alry. Even at that time I had taken part in thirty-two engage- 
ments, some of which were severe battles. A portion of this 
time was spent as courier, carrying orders from one general to 
another, and through these duties I became acquainted with most 
of the leading generals in the Army of Northern Virginia. 

I served under Gen. Stonewall Jackson until his death, after 
which I was under Longstreet, with Gen. William L. Jackson my 
brigade commander. I had delivered messages to Gen. R. E. Lee, 
the Hills, Early, Breckinridge, and others. I received my com- 
mission from Gen. William L. Jackson, and by him was sent 
throiigh the lines as scout and spy. 



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While the soldier who has participated in a number of battles 
knows what danger is, he is in the midst of excitement, with 
his comrades about him, and forgets the danger to a great extent : 
but the new duty to which I was assigned made me realize perils 
that I had not yet known. I knew that death was the doom of 
the convicted spy. The orders were issued, however, and I at 




MAJ. A. J. MARLOWE, CONFEDERATE SPY. 



once bade the boys good-by and started away on my new line of 
duty. 

My first night was sleepless, for I was busy with my plans. 
No general ever went over the details of a battle more carefully 
than I did over mine. There was one subject ever uppermost in 
my mind — the saving of my life while doing good service for the 
Confederate cause. 

My camp was near a place called Cloverdale, and morning final- 
ly came. Of course I had slept some, but it was a restless, dis- 



276 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

turbed slumber, and I was not sorry when the early dawn bade me 
stir about. 

I made my way the first day to Warm Springs, Bath County, 
A'a., and put up for the night at Maise's Hotel. I gained some 
information from the landlord, who claimed to be a neutral man. 
He was neutral, as far as doing anything for either side was 
concerned. 

He told me where the Llnion army had been encamped, and how 
they had left a considerable amount of army stores — clothing, 
blankets, etc. I found the stores and proceeded to help myself, 
for there were none of the Federal soldiers nearer than nine miles. 
I selected a sergeant's uniform and as many blankets as I needed, 
and was then ready to proceed on my way. 

I intended going by Hot Springs, but was informed of the pres- 
ence of the enemy in that direction, so I retraced my way a few 
miles and took the mountain road to the Pocahontas Valley and 
stopped for the night. I got my breakfast at a farmhouse and 
had my haversack filled also, for they were true Confederates. 

They gave me information about the Federals, and the safest 
route for me to travel. I rode across the mountain and was not 
molested all day. About nine o'clock at night I arrived at Mrs. 
Hinkle's, who resided on a farm at the top of Upine Mountain. 
Mr. Hinkle had been killed by the Union soldiers earlv in 
the war, and the widow conducted a large stock farm. Mrs. Hin- 
kle made me very welcome, and I stayed a couple of days and 
rested. I kept concealed most of the time, for the Federal cavalry 
were liable to visit the place any hour. Sure enough, they came, 
two companies of them, and stayed about two hours. I was hid- 
den in an orchard, some one hundred and fifty yards away. The 
soldiers gave Mrs. Hinkle some advice about not assisting the 
Confederates, and that if she did, what might happen. From my 
place in the orchard I could only look on and, wonder when they 
would leave. They rode away finally, taking two pigs and about 
thirty chickens. 

I decided to leave my horse w'ith Mrs. Hinkle and travel on foot, 
so that I need not follow^ the highways. My pocket compass 
was now needed. I wanted to travel in a northwesterly direc- 
tion, so I took my bearings, changed the gray uniform for the 
blue, loaded a sixteen-shooter and two seven-shooting revolvers. 

I traveled all day, and about sundown came in sight of a large 
cabin on the side of the mountain. I stopped for a while and 
looked the place over and finally decided to go in. When I got 
to the house I met with a cold reception. I heard some one say : 

"He is a d Yank !" It seemed a bit rough, coming from a 

woman ; but it was not hard to forgive her, for she was my friend, 
if I could only explain the blue clothes. 

As I approached the door two women appeared. The look of 



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disdain upon their faces as their eyes ranged over the uniform 
told how cordially they hated the '"Yankees." They did not in- 
vite me in, but I invited myself. 

"You ladies don't seem to like the Yankees very well?" I said. 

"I reckon you might know what we think of you. The looks 
of your back going down the road there would be pleasing," said 
one of the women. 

"I don't believe you know a 'Yank' when you see one ; and 




HEADQUARTERS OF A CONFEDERATE SPY dX \\EST BROAD STREET, 
COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



there is no use in us lighting, anyway," said I. "I am a Rebel 
scout and spy." 

They did not believe me at first ; but I convinced them, and then 
we were friends. They made me welcome, and I arranged to 
stay all night. Supper was not ready until a late hour, for we 
had much to talk about, and they took the time to get me a good 
supper. 

At last, as we were about to go to the table, the door was 
thrown open, and in walked nine well-armed men. They were a 
sturdy, dangerous-looking lot. I reached for my revolver prompt- 
ly, and. one of the women, noticing my movement, cried : "This 
man is a Rebel soldier !" "He don't look good to me in those 
blue rags," said the leader of the rangers, or guerrillas, for such 
Ihev were ; but he smiled good-naturedlv when I was introduced 



278 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

as a Confederate spy. We all ate supper together, and they told 
of their exploits in the mountains as bushwhackers. 

The Union home guards made life unpleasant for men in sym- 
pathy with the South ; and from the stories these men told, they 
did as much against any one suspected of being for the Union. I 
urged them to join the Confederate army, as they could do more 
good there, and I succeeded in enlisting seven out of the nine. 
They agreed that they would go South with me when I returned ; 
and they did, but the number had increased to seventeen. 

It was not a bad place to stay, and I remained two nights and 
a day. The women helped me to secure a guide who knew' every 
mile of that territory, and, as I was not familiar with that portion 
of Virginia, his services were very acceptable. I learned the 
whereabouts of the United States forces, and enlisted twenty-one 
men. I then returned with these to the home of the women, 
where the seven men I had enlisted were to meet me. 

As has been said, they were there with ten additional recruits. 
I now had thirty-eight men armed with rifles and shotguns, and, 
after camping for a day or two, started South by the way of Mrs. 
Hinkle's, where I had left my horse. When we reached the 
headquarters of Elk River we ran into a squad of Union home 
guards, and with these we had a sharp skirmish. They wounded 
two of my men, and we wounded four of them, killed one, and 
took eleven prisoners. • We reached Mrs. Hinkle's the second 
night, and left for Newmarket the next day at noon. We went by 
the way of Piedmont, at which place we met a body of Confed- 
erate scouts and turned over our prisoners. I then went to New- 
market and turned my men over to General Early. This ended 
my first trip. 

On the I2th day of October, 1864, I left the army at Mount 
Sidney, with orders to go through the lines and get all the in- 
formation possible regarding the movements 01 the Federal army, 
and to enlist all the men I could get. I went by the way of 
Buffalo and Panther Gaps, and met with no incident worthy of 
note. 

. At Lewisburg I found my old regiment and had a visit with 
them and a talk with Gen. W. L. Jackson, who did not think well 
of my proposed trip. 

T was to go to the Kanawha Valley, and there Avere more Fed- 
eral soldiers in the valley than there had been for two years 
preceding, and the Union scouts were also thick in that part of 
the country. This was General Jackson's view of the situation ; 
and if he had had the authority, he would have countermanded my 
orders. He advised me to keep away from Charleston ; but as- 
that was one of the points I wished to m.ake, I did not obey his. 



A CONFEDERATE SPY IN OHIO. 279 

orders. The night of the i8th I stayed with a Mr. Baird, a moun- 
taineer and hunter. He was taciturn, and it was hard to get any 
information from him. To any question I asked he would simi- 
ply answer "Yes" or "No." Finally I got him started telling hunt- 
ing stories. I had found the key to his tongue, and he told many 
interesting adventures as a hunter on the wild and rugged 
mountains. 

After a few bear stories I went after him again about people. 
I told him frankly I wanted the news from Charleston. He said 
he would go and find out how many soldiers were there and let 
me know when I came back. We started the next day. I accom- 
panied him for a time. We stayed all night in a deserted cabin 
on Gauley Mountain. He went on toward Charleston, while I 
crossed the mountain and w'eiit to the home of T. Sanders, on Elk 
Mountain. 

Sanders was a noted Southern sympathizer. He gave me a list 
of the names of the Union men whose homes I would pass on my 
way to the head waters of Pond Creek. 

Here I put on the blue uniform again, and had gone but a 
few miles when I ran across three Union soldiers, who wanted to 
know who I was. I told them I lived on Pond Creek, They 
then asked me about a number of persons supposed to live on the 
creek, but of course I did not know any of them. I was not to be 
caught that way, how^ever. They wanted to know to what regi- 
ment I belonged, and I told them the Eleventh West Virginia 
Regiment. They asked me where my regiment was encamped, 
and I told them we did not have time to go into camp, as we were 
kept scouting all the time in the Gauley Mountains. I was not 
sorry to part with them, and traveled the rest of the day unmo- 
lested. 

I found the houses Mr. Sanders mentioned, and stayed all night 
with a Union man and talked over the war with him. Of course 
we agreed on war questions ; and when I told him how we made 
the Johnnies get up and dig out he was greatly pleased, and we 
had a royal good time. Some of the neighbors were invited in, 
and we had a big supper. The breakfast was a good one also ; and 
when I left, the lady of the house filled my haversack with bis- 
cuits, butter, etc., that made an excellent dinner. I found out 
considerable about the home guards and what they did with peo- 
ple suspected of being Reb.els. They made the women cook big 
meals for them ; and if the}- found any men, made them prisoners 
and took them to Camp Chase. 

I reached Bellville. on the Ohio River, on the 21st, and was 
then within seven miles of my home — the home I had not seen 
since the war began. I stayed all night with Mr. Pennypacker, 
and learned there were many in the community who were in sym- 



2So THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

pathy with the South, and that there were numbers in Southern 
Ohio who were waiting a chance to go South. I learned consid- 
erable also about the Knights of the Golden Circle, an organiza- 
tion in sympathy with the Confederacy. I had never met any of 
these men before, but had heard of them, and very soon was to 
make myself a member of the order. I decided I would go to 
Columbus, Ohio, and find out what I could about Camp Chase, 
and whether it was true that they were sending citizens there. 

On the 22d I left Bellville, crossed the Ohio River and went to 
see a farmer, Mr. Bell, and found him one of the strongest 
Southern sympathizers I had ever met. I stayed overnight with 
him, and together we went to a neighboring town, where I bought 
a suit of citizens' clothing, and sent my blue suit back with Mr. 
Bell. I then went to Lancaster, and stopped at a private board- 
ing house. I overheard some conversation that led me to know 
that there was a Knight of the Golden Circle organization in the 
town or near by, and, after some discreet inquiries, was led to 
the place of meeting. I was persuaded to remain over until the 
next day and attend the meeting. 

The meeting place was in a large barn about a half mile 
from town. I was permitted to go inside the barn, but the meet- 
ing was held in the other end of the building from that in which 
I was placed. 

The meeting had not been in session long when two men came 
to miC, asking quite a number of questions. They then left and 
returned to the meeting, and another man came to escort me into 
the presence of the Circle — the Rebel Circle, as the Unionists 
called them. I was surprised when I saw the number of men 
present. There must have been upward of one hundred. I was 
questioned many times, and was then asked to join the order. 
In a moment I saw it was the very thing for me. A Confederate 
spy was safer inside the Knights of the Golden Circle than out 
of it. 

When I had become one of them, I told them frankly who I 
was and what my business was in Ohio ; and I told them further 
that I expected their support, as they had pledged, and as their 
pledge gave me the right to ask. Then I got the grip and pass- 
word. When the meeting was about to adjourn, a man from 
Tupper's Plains called for order and made a few remarks that 
appealed to me personally. He asked me how well I was ofif 
financially. I replied that I had no money to spare. He then 
moved that a collection be taken up, which was done at once. It 
was a collection that would have delighted the heart of many a 
country preacher. 

In about three minutes I was about fifty-nine dollars richer. I 
took the name of the secretary and his address, that I might get 



A CONFEDERATE SPY IN OHIO. 281 

more when needed. I have the name and address yet, but it 
will do no good to name these people. They befriended me when 
I needed their friendship. Had even one of them betrayed me, 
I should have been hanged in a week's time. The citizens of Co- 
lumbus to-day easily forget that I, a citizen, was a spy in their 
midst, but they would not so readily forgive a Northern man who 
was a traitor to the cause of the Union. 

I stayed overnight w^ith one of the men, and on the morning 
of the 24th hired a man to take me to Slabtown, where I had been 
directed to the house of a friend in my new order, who could give 
me information regarding the general sentiment of the people 
•of Southern Ohio. I remained all night with the man, and got 
in close touch with him when he learned who I was. I made 
arrangements with him to send any men who wished to enlist in 
the Confederate army to Eagle and Vinton Furnaces, and I would 
meet them there and take them through the lines. He was to let 
the Knights at Lancaster know, so that all who wished to enlist 
should go to Vinton Furnace and ask for any kind of work 
they could get until I came. I went to Rushville and stayed over- 
night, and from there I. went to Newark by way of Jacktown. I 
had the names of some parties I wished to see in Newark, who 
were members of the Golden Circle, but they were not at home. 

I spent two days in Newark, the 27th and 28th of October, 1864, 
and the greater part of the time I put in at the office of the United 
States recruiting officer. The officer's name was Drake, and I 
got acquainted with him and received some good offers to go in 
the Union army. The draft was on them, and they were paying 
anywhere from three hundred dollars to thirteen hundred dollars 
for substitutes. I was looking for men myself, so naturally could 
not enlist. I was not paying any bounties, either. 

I then decided to go to Columbus, thirty-three miles distant 
from Newark. The morning train would get me in at ten o'clock, 
and so I went, stopped at the hotel, took in the city, and on the 
morning of the 30th went to Camp Chase. 

I went to headquarters and inquired for the commandant, and 
a man with the rank of colonel made his appearance, demanding 
to know what I wanted. I told him I wanted to see the Rebel 
prisoners. "Why ?" he asked sharply. 

'T have never seen a Rebel," said I, "and I want to see one." I 
told him that I was in Columbus for the first time, which was 
the truth, and that I had heard so much about the Rebels that 
I really wante'd to. see one, which was also true. 

The Colonel got back at me all right, though. "Why don't 
you enlist and go in the army?" he asked. "If you will enlist and 
go South, you will see more Rebels than we can show you here." 
I knew he was telling the truth. He then asked me where I 



282 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

lived. I told him, "Away up in Michigan," and the only reason- 
that I was not in the army, I was my mother's only support. 

The Colonel finally said I might see the prisoners if I came back 
at two o'clock. Previous to going to Camp Chase I had engaged 
a room at 750 West Broad Street, at which place I took my 
meals, and I went to the room and waited for two o'clock. 

The officers waiting around headquarters had some fun with 
the green man from Michigan. The rules of the prison forbade 
visitors upon the grounds; but in company with an officer a few 
visitors were at times permitted upon the parapet! Even the 
guards were not allowed to converse with prisoners. It was only 
for a few moments at best that I was allowed to gaze upon the- 
faces of my Southern comrades, and there was nothing I could 
do for them. 

The Colonel asked me what I thought of the prisoners, and I 
told him I thought they looked pretty tough. He said to me: 
"Young man, those men may not look well, but they are brave 
men, no doubt, and it is not a sign that they were cowards that 
they are prisoners of war." 

I then went to my room, got my supper, put on a paper 'collar, 
and left for the depot. I took the night train for Bellaire and got 
there at daylight on the ist of November. I went to Wheeling, 
four miles distant, stayed overnight, and, went on a trip to Pitts- 
burg. I was afraid to go around without any excuse, especially 
to military camps. I bought one hundred copies of a paper called 
the Washington Herald and took them with me to an artillery 
camp that I visited at Pittsburg. I talked with the men and 
sold or gave away my papers. I left Pittsburg on the evening 
of the same day I arrived, and on my way South met another spy. 
He was captured the next day, and as he attempted to make his 
escape from the guard he was killed. 

While at Wheeling I got a pass to go to the island in the Ohio 
River where were confined a number of Southern prisoners. I 
found a few regular Confederate soldiers, but the most of them 
were citizens who had refused to take the oath of allegiance. 

I remained in Wheeling a couple of days and then took a boat 
to Marietta, then up the Muskingum to Zanesville, arriving there 
on the 8th of November. I left there on the loth with three re- 
cruits, gotten through the aid of the Knights of the Golden Cir- 
cle. We left on horseback and rode to Newark. From there we 
went by way of Rushville to Lancaster. From the Lancaster 
Knights I received fifty-four dollars. On the 12th the party 
went to Eagle Furnace and there got eleven men. Here, after a 
conference, the men divided into little groups and left for Vinton 
Furnace. 

By the 15th we were all there and looking for work. All told 



A CONFEDERATE SPY IN OHIO. 283 

the same story of having heard that the Eagle Furnace was about 
to shut down and we had come there for work. They could give 
us no work at Vinton, as we well knew ; so the boys left in couples, 
all going to the Ohio River. Our place of meeting was a point 
near Pond Creek. I got nine men at Vinton, making twenty- 
three in all. I need not follow every detail of the trip. We got 
out of Ohio, crossed, the mountains, and I landed my men finally 
at Staunton, Va. I saw the men enlist in the Twentieth Virginia. 
I made a report of my trip to General Early. 

After my trip through Ohio I spent some time scouting in 
the Shenandoah Valley. I left Woodstock for a trip to the 
mountains in West Virginia, and spent a little time with some 
of Rosser's Cavalry at Mount Jackson, and rode with them to 
Piedmont. Here we met some of the enemy, who opened fire 
upon us, killing two men who, with myself, were a part of the 
advance guard. I distinctly heard the command given to fire, 
but before they could reload we were upon them and they were 
prisoners. Captain Hahurst, who had command of a company 
of independent scouts, had. given his men orders to take no 
prisoners, and when this became known to the men in my charge 
they became almost uncontrollable. They would have made a 
quick end of this scout had I not been there. 

They were disposed not to obey me until I told them I would 
report them to their commander. In looking over the names of 
the prisoners I discovered that tw'O of them had been members 
of my old company, who had deserted. I did not bring this 
against them, knowing what their fate would have been. 

I wish to explain what kind of men these were and how little 
the loss would have been had summary measures been taken. In 
what was known as the Ligrate Valley, in easy range of which 
we were at that time, were a band of men whose numbers were 
estimated to run from three to five hundred, who were deserters 
from both Northern and Southern armies. They banded them- 
selves together for plunder, and it made no difference which 
command they saw fit to attack, provided it was not too large. 
Their chief occupation was capturing wagon trains. They had 
by some means secured a cannon and gave it the name of the 
"Swamp Dragon," and it soon became unsafe for small scouting 
parties to pass through that part of the country. 

After burying our two men who had been killed, we had dinner, 
the prisoners and our men eating together in a free and easy 
manner. Some of the prisoners and some of my men found that 
they were related. After dinner we traveled toward Buchanan, 
but when night came on we had gone farther than we had orders 
to go. We went into camp in a wood near a farmhouse, near by 
a fine spring. My men, not on guard, slept with their arms in 
their hands, but the night was quiet and peaceful. 



284 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

When the sun rose on the morning of November 2-^, 1864, its 
rays fell on fields and woods white with frost. There was much 
to do and we were early astir. As the ranking officer of the 
little expedition, I told Captain Smith, then in charge of the 
force, to turn Captain Hahurst over as a prisoner of war and to 
return to his command by way of Meadow Blufifs. 

I then started on a trip to the Ohio River. I was told at the 
farmhouse, near which we camped, that it was about twenty miles 
to Buchanan, and that there were quite a number of Federal sol- 
diers encamped there. While I questioned the farmer and his 
wife closely, they would not tell me whether or not they were in 
sympathy with the South. I had on my blue uniform, and it 
may be that this had something" to do with it. I bought of them 
enough bread and meat to last me for a tramp of three days, and 
they looked at me pretty closely when I took a roll of greenbacks 
from my pocket to pay them. "It is easy to tell what side you 
are on," said the woman. "Yes," I replied, "but would you rather 
have Confederate money?" "It makes no difiference." said the 
woman. 

I had been paid off at W'oodstock, and so had quite a little sum 
of Confederate money. I walked all that day, and about five 
o'clock stopped at a house some three miles from Buchanan. 

The house was occupied by an old gentleman and his wife. I 
told them I was lunigry and asked if I could get supper. The 
old lady said that if I could put up with what they had I could get 
something to eat. I replied, that "beggars should not be choos- 
ers ;" and with that they laughed and made me welcome. At the 
supper table I brought up the subject of the army, and the lady 
said: "You soldiers must see pretty tough times." "Well, we 
do," I replied ; "but may I ask if you have any friends in either 
army ?" 

The woman started to reply, when the old gentleman gave her 
to understand that he preferred that she should not discuss that 
subject. 

"You need not fear to tell me," I replied. "All you may say 
to me will be regarded as strictly confidential. Most people in 
this part of the country have friends in one army or the other. 
You are old people, and no one will cause you harm if you tell 
them the truth." 

"I have two sons in the army," said the old man. 

"And on which side are they?" I asked. 

"One is on your side and the other is a Confederate," he said. 

"Do either one of the boys ever come home?" I asked. 

"The one in the Rebel army has gotten here only once or twice," 
said the old gentleman. 

"How about the Union soldier?" 

"He comes often," they said. 



A CONFEDERATE SPY IN OHIO. 285. 

Then I asked them plainly which side they were in sympathy 
with, and again the old lady was cautioned as she was about to 
reply. 

"Don't be afraid of me," I said. "You have a right to your 
opinion, even if we might not agree. I simply ask you these 
questions for personal reasons." 

Then she said : "Pa and me both think the South is right, 
but maybe that is because we were brought up there." 

I had noticed in the course of the conversation that they fre- 
quently mentioned the son in the Confederate army and rarely 
alluded to the other, and this led me to the conclusion that they 
were all right. 

"Look here," I said. "I want to tell you something, and what I 
tell you is to be a secret." 

They both looked at me curiously. When they had promised, I 
said : "I am a Confederate soldier — no matter about this uniform 
— and I am here to find out how many Federal soldiers are camped 
in town and all such information as I can get." 

They told me then that there were three regiments at Bucking- 
ham, and the regiment their son belonged to had gone to Parkers- 
burg. They told me, upon inquiry, that it was the Sixty-Third 
Ohio that their son belonged to. I asked them where the pickets 
were, and they told me. I then asked the old gentleman if he 
knew the country well. 

"I have lived here eighteen years," he answered, "and I have 
tramped these mountains until I know every path for twenty 
miles." 

"I want you to guide me around the pickets," I said. 

He hesitated. "If you will go with me to-night, I will give you 
twenty dollars." I then asked the old lady if she would be afraid 
to stay alone. 

"I have often stayed alone," she replied. I then gave her one 
dollar for meat and bread, which I added to my goodly supply. I 
gave the old gentleman twenty dollars as soon, as we were ready 
to go. The lady of the house said "God bless you !" as we strode 
out into the darkness. The night was intensely dark, for there 
were neither moon nor stars to be seen. We stumbled over logs 
or ran into bushes and briers or fell over piles of stones. We 
dared not have a light, for fear of calling the attention of the men 
We wished to avoid. By and by the old man discovered that, not- 
withstanding he knew every path in twenty miles, he had lost 
his bearings. We simply rambled around and sometimes sat 
down to think over the situation ; but at last daylight came, and we 
discovered that we were on top of the hill overlooking the Union 
camp, where we could see here and there a camp fire. 

The old gentleman asked me what we should do, and I told him 
the best thing to do was to do nothing. There was nothing else 



286 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

to do just then except to eat. The guide had a flask of apple- 
jack and I had plenty of rations, so we ate an early breakfast. 

We found near by a thicket of grapevines about an old rail 
fence, and here we rested until the old gentleman got the lay of 
the land. I suggested that he go to town, make some small pur- 
chases, and while there go to headquarters and secure a pass and 
go home. This idea pleased him, and I watched him until he 
had safely passed the pickets. At one time four men from the 
camp came near where I lay concealed. They played cards for 
a while and then went back to camp. With my field glass I could 
see all that was going on in camp. I took quite a comfortable 
nap during the afternoon, preparing for a night tramp over the 
mountains. 

At sunset it clouded up and by eight o'clock it was raining. I 
never traveled a darker night and could not see my hand before 
me. Finally I determined to light a match and look at my pocket 
compass ; but a compass is of little use to a man lost in the woods 
on a dark night. I stumbled on awhile longer and came to a small 
stream of water, and I lighted a match again to see in which direc- 
tion the water was running. I had an idea of the general direc- 
tion of the Ohio River ; and if this stream flowed into the Ohio, I 
should follow it. When I looked, the water was running in just 
the opposite direction from what I thought it should. I climbed to 
the top of a hill and sat down to think it over and perhaps stay 
until morning and chance a daylight trip. I had been seated but 
a short time when I heard some one approaching. There were 
several of them ; I could tell by their footsteps. 

I waited breathlessly their approach, with my finger on the 
trigger of the repeating rifle. Presently they stopped and one 
man said : 'T believe we are near the Yankee pickets." What a 
relief ! I spoke to them in a low tone : "Are you lost, boys ?" 

There was no reply. A few moments of deathlike silence fol- 
lowed, and I spoke again, bringing my gun to my eye. 

"I've got you cornered, boys. You had better answer me," I 
said. 

"Who are you?" one asked. 

"I am a Johnny," I replied. 

"How many are there of you?" 

"Just myself," I answered. They joined me at once, and there 
were nine of them. They proved to be from Jenkins's Brigade, 
and each had a thirty-day furlough and were slipping through the 
Federal lines for a visit home. They had not been home since the 
war commenced, and naturally would take some dangerous risks 
to get there. 

We waited until daylight and climbed to the top of a high hill, 
from which I could see the town through my field glass. We 
•could see where the pickets or Union outpost was some distance 



A CONFEDERATE SPY IN OHIO. 287 

"below us, so we sat awhile and discussed our situation. Finally 
I said I would go to a house some distance away and get such 
information as we needed. They ridiculed the idea ; but, to show 
them I was in earnest. I left my gun and two revolvers with them 
and went to the house. 

I spoke to the lady of the house and asked if I could get break- 
fast for ten men. She said she was getting breakfast for us 
now. I told her I thought not. I saw a number of soldiers, 
perhaps a half dozen, sitting inside the house, and they were 
listening to our conversation. As I turned to' go one of the men 
asked me what command I belonged to. 

"Company D, Sixty-Third Ohio," I answered. 

"Where is your regiment?" he asked. 

"It is encamped near Parkersburg," was my reply. 

"What are you doing out here?" he questioned. 

"We are here after that horse thief, Bill Gundey, and were 
•close onto him last night. You need not be surprised to see my 
men in Rebel uniforms," I said, "for it is a great help in some 
-places around here." 

"Where are the rest of your men?" he asked. 

"Up on the hill there ; and I'm going after them. You will 
see a nice bunch of Rebs when they come." 

I was soon in the midst of the men, and told them the situation 
and what questions to answer about the Sixty-Third Ohio, etc. I 
told them that if the Yankees undertook to give us any trouble 
we could clean them out, but that it was best to stick to our story 
of the Sixty-Third. 

Breakfast was ready when we got there, and the Union ser- 
geant and I took seats side by side, and the men in gray sat facing 
our men in blue. 

We laughed and joked and told stories of battles. We re- 
mained about an hour, and just as we were leaving there came 
along about eighty Union cavalry. As soon as they got sight 
of the men with the gray uniforms they halted. 

"Where did you get those fellows?" asked the Yankee captain. 

I told him what we were doing — hunting the horse thief — and 
it was best that some go in Rebel uniform. He wanted to know 
how we were going to get back to Parkersburg, and I told him 
that at Teacher's Mills we expected to meet another lot of our 
scouts, and that if we did not catch Gundey we would go to Par- 
kersburg by way of Stillwell. They then rode away and left us. 
We left the pickets all in fine humor, and they wished us good luck 
and we did the same, and we traveled all day unmolested upon 
the public road. 

We reached the Mills all right and stayed there until after 
breakfast, when the boys left me and scattered in every direction 
to their homes. I xletermined to go to my home, which I had not 



2 88 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

seen for nearly four years. I got home safely and changed my 
clothing. I stayed there several days. I left one revolver and 
my sixteen-shooter, as it would not do to go through Ohio armed 
to the teeth. I crossed the Ohio River and went to Cedarville, 
then to Cooleyville and on to Tupper's Plains. 

At the village of Dexter I found a camp of the Knights of the 
Golden Circle, and, enlisted some forty men to go South in May. 
I went to Jacktown, thence to Newark, and from there to Co- 
lumbus. I wanted to once more see the prisoners, if possible. 

I left Newark for Columbus by train and arrived in time to see 
about six hundred prisoners march up High Street. I went to 
the usual place, 750 West Broad Street. I was permitted to visit 
the prisoners again. The lady of the house where I stopped 
gave me a lecture on patriotism. She thought an able-bodied 
young man should go into the army. T told her some one had to 
stay at home and look after the women and children. 

I remained in Columbus until the 26th of February, 1865, when 
T concluded to go to Newark. I had promised the Knights of 
the Golden Circle to be there on the 14th day of March, at about 
two o'clock, on the public square. Instead, I arrived on Feb- 
ruary 26, put up at a boarding house run by a Mrs. Smith, near 
whose house was a recruiting station. I spent a portion of my 
time about the recruiting station and got acquainted with a Colonel 
Jones. He wanted me to go into the army, saying I co'^ld get as 
much as thirteen hundred dollars if I went in the place of a cer- 
tain man. 

Of course I could not take the big pay. Wishing to stav about 
Nevvark until the time agreed u].'On when T was to meiM: th.e 
Knights of the Golden Circle, I secured work at the depot for 
about three weeks. On the 14th of March I went to the public 
square ; and seeing a man apparently looking for some one, I gave 
him the secret sign of the order, which he answered and came 
toward me, giving me the grip and the word of recognition. 
After some conversation of a general nature, he asked if I had 
the note. I told him that I did not have it with me. 

"If you had the note, I could pay you," he said. 

"How would it do if I gave you a receipt and I destroy it when 
I go home?" I asked. 

"That will do," said he. 

I wrote the receipt and paused, waiting for him to name the' 
amount. 

"It is fifty-seven dollars and the interest." 

"Never mind the interest," said I, "for the note is not vet 
due." 

There were people standing about and passing to and fro near 
us. and the conversation was intended to lead any one that might 
be listening to think the note a genuine business transaction. I 



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had never met the man before, bnt he was a good member of the 
Golden Circle. 

I spent a short time in Xewark, and often ran over to Columbus 
to get the news from the front. I occasionally went out of town 
to attend a meeting of the Circle. I felt that the time had come 
for me to go South, and I left Newark the last week in April. I 
went to Bellaire and from there to Parkersburg by boat. From 
this point I went up the Little Kanawha to Kanawha Station, and 
from there traveled through the mountains afoot. A portion of 
the trip two men accompanied me ; but after three days in the 
Gauley Mountains they left me, and I was alone untli I came to 
White Sulphur Springs, where I put up at the hotel for a couple 
of days. There were Union soldiers here, and I went to the 
headquarters and got a pass to go to Lewisburg. I arrived there 
safely, and inquired of the soldiers if it would be safe to go to 
Oakland Station, about twenty miles south. They told me that 
point was held by Union troops, and that a wagon train was 
going that way and might give me a ride. To the man in 
charge I showed my pass, and he kindly gave me permission to 
ride in one of the wagons. 

When we had traveled about ten miles of the way a volley of 
musketry was fired at the train from the deep woods near the 
road, killing the horses of the two front teams. I leaped from 
the wagon and took shelter behind a big oak tree. The guards 
with the train fi'red on the force in the woods from under the 
wagons. It was a party of Mosby's men, sixteen of them, and 
the men in charge of the wagon train were all made prisoners. 
They were taken some ten miles south and paroled. I left the 
Mosby men at the same time the Union soldiers were paroled, and 
pushed on. 

I arrived at Wytheville without further adventure. Here I 
met a portion of my old regiment, and they had with them some 
two hundred stragglers from all commands. They informed me 
that General Lee had surrendered and they were on their way to 
join Johnston in North Carolina. I took command of the men 
and moved on. I met General Forrest in Southwestern Virginia 
and was attached to his command. He gave me orders to go 
east and scout in the direction of Lynchburg and to let him hear 
from me daily. The second day I reported, but the third day I 
could get no word to him. I proceeded on in the direction or- 
dered, keeping a close watch for the troops under General Grant, 
for we wished to join Johnston. I divided my men in squads to 
travel upon certain roads and meet at certain designated places. 
One day as we were riding leisurely along we saw some persons 
bathing in a pool or pond near the road. We saw the blue uni- 
forms, and I ordered the men to charge on them. We captured 
two negro soldiers who had been sent out to gather up the 
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390 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

wagons and army equipments that were scattered through the 
country. 

My men, seeing these negro soldiers and feeling enraged that 
the cause they had fought for four long years was lost, shouted: 

"Kill the d niggers !" I had all that I could do to save their 

lives. I told my men that the negroes were United States soldiers 
and must be treated as such. 

I wish to digress from the story of that time to say that one 
of these same colored men whose life I saved lives in Columbus 
and is my barber. He keeps a shop on West Broad Street, in 
sight of where my headquarters were whenever I was in Colum- 
bus during those days. His name is James W. Byrd, and he has 
not forgotten the time nor circumstance. 

We went on with our two prisoners to the place where we v/ere 
to meet the rest of the scouts, who had been waiting for us. They 
had captured seven Union soldiers and their horses as well. We 
scouted about this part of the country several days, and found 
ourselves in possession of twenty-seven prisoners. I decided to 
leave this base of operations, find some command to which I could 
turn the prisoners over, and get additional instructions. 

I went through Southwestern Virginia and over into North 
Carolina, where I met about five hundred Confederate soldiers 
going home. They told me that Johnston had surrendered some 
seven days before that time. As soon as I was convinced that all 
was over, I gave command for the men to move into a field, and 
there I told them the news. I turned to the prisoners and told 
them they were free and to go at once. Then I turned to my 
men and told them that the war was over and that we were sol- 
diers no longer. I then took each man by the hand and thanked 
him for the heroic work that he had done for four long years. 
All that was left for us to do was to go home and begin life over 
again. 

I then thought of my own position. I had been a scout and 
spy, and I felt, some way, that I would be safer in Ohio until all 
was settled ; for one could not know then what would be done 
with a spy, even if the soldiers in the ranks were going home. 
It was a long way from the border of North Carolina to the 
Ohio River, but I had a good horse, and many a long, weary 
mile did I ride. I finally reached the Ohio River, and at a small 
town sold my fine horse for eighty dollars in greenbacks. This 
horse was one I got from the wagon master of the train that had 
been captured by Mosby's men on my way South. I bought a 
suit of clothes, boxed my gray suit and sent it home, and the next 
morning took a boat for Wheeling. From there I went by train 
to Newark and remained there while the paroling of the prisoners 
at Camp Chase was going on. I spent much of my time at the 
headquarters of Colonel Brown at Newark, and at times I did 



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work of different kinds. I saw in the Columbus papers that 
they were paroling the prisoners at Camp Chase, and among the 
number a few officers that had not been forwarded to Johnson's 
Island. One morning I was in the office of the Colonel and read 
aloud to him the article, but he seemed to pay no attention to it, 
but kept on writing. Presently I asked : "Colonel, what are you 
going to do with me. I was one of those Johnnies, as you call 
them"." 

He did not reply at first, still continuing with his writing. 
When he had finished, he said that I would have to prove it. 

"Let me have your knife," I said. He handed me the knife. 
I began to rip the lining of the top of my boot. I drew from the 
boot the paper that told who and what I was. 

When he had read it I saw a frown gather, and he asked : "Why 
did you not tell me long ago ?" 

"The war was not over long ago. Colonel ; and if I had told 
you then, I should not have been living now," I replied. 

"I don't know what to do with you, unless I hang you," he 
said ; but there was a sort of twinkle in his eyes. 

"You can put me under arrest and telegraph to Columbus and 
see what they want to do with me." 

Then he told me to consider myself under arrest and report 
once a day. This lasted for about a week, and one morning the 
Colonel called me in. "Well, I have received word from Colum- 
bus," he said. 

I bowed, waiting for him to finish. 

"All spies caught within our lines when the war closed are to 
be hanged," he said. 

Notwithstanding the seriousness of his words and his attempt 
to look very solemn, I could see a smile lurking on his face, and 
was not alarmed, as I said : "But you did not capture me. I came 
here and told you about it. But if you are anxious to hang me, 
get at it, for I'm in something of a hurry this morning." 

He laughed and replied that he had orders to parole me. I 
asked him the nature of the parole, and he read it to me, the sub- 
stance being that I was not again to take up arms against the 
government of the United States, etc. 

He then called his clerk and told him to look after things. To 
me he said, "We will make a day of this ;" and we did, but not 
in getting drunk. Neither drank a drop of intoxicating liquors ; 
but O how we did eat ! We celebrated the end of the war that 
way. 

I went back home to Virginia, and some years ago I moved 
to Ohio, and my home for the past ten years has been in Colum- 
bus, and I live in less than three squares from the little house 
at 750 West Broad, where my headquarters had been located. 



292 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

In the latter portion of Major Marlowe's story he mentions the 
capture of two colored soldiers and that one of them, named 
Byrd, was a barber on West Broad Street, whom he had patron- 
ized for some years. When Major Marlowe's story was being 
prepared for this volume, the attention of the author was called 
to the statement, and he immediately had Byrd interviewed as 
to his recollections concerning his capture. When he was asked 
if he knew a gentleman by the name of Marlowe, he said he had 
known him several years, and that he had been a patron of his 
place for some time before he knew that they had met in the 
South. He was asked to relate his recollection of the particulars, 
and he said : 

I lived in North Carolina before the war and was a fireman 
on the North Carolina Central Railway, under an engineer who 
was a down-East Yankee. After a while I learned that the Con- 
federate government meant to get all of us free colored men (I 
had never been a slave ) in the service of the South ( I think we 
were to work on fortifications and such like), and I told the 
Yankee engineer that I was going to turn up missing mighty 
soon. He told me where to go and how to get there, and it was 
tlie Quakers who helped me. I got through all right to the 
Yankee lines and enlisted in the First United States Colored Cav- 
alry, Company A, commanded by Capt. Charles W. Dye. 

After the fall of Petersburg a battalion was sent south and 
west of there (if I remember the direction aright) to bring in 
abandoned cannon, ammunition, etc. While on this trip I went 
to a nice pond or pool to bathe and wash my clothes. Well, while 
we were busy cleaning up, another man of my company and my- 
self, we were surprised to find ourselves surrounded by a squad 
of some sixty men in gray. They looked like a guerrilla band, and 
I was pretty certain they were when two or three big, tall fellows 

cried out: "Shoot them! They are nothing but d niggers, 

anyway !" I thought it was about sundown for me, when a man 
rode in front of them and said : "These men are United States sol- 
diers and must be treated as soldiers." 

While some of them kept on swearing that they would kill 
us, he just quietly told them that they wouldn't do any such thing, 
that he was their superior officer and they should obey him. 

They took us along with them for several days ; and when at 
last they learned the war was over, the gentleman in charge said 
to us that we could go when we wished, as they had nothing more 
to do with us. 

I thought that a negro who had fought in the army would not 
get much show in the South ; and, not knowing what became of 



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my regiment, I started for Ohio, where I had some relatives. I 
traveled on foot some six weeks, and at last found myself at Gal- 
lipolis, Ohio. 

I knew the war was over and there was no use for soldiers any 
more, so I did not look up my regiment ; in fact, 1 did not know 
how to go about it. 

I finally came to Columbus, and worked here for years at my 
business, that of a barber. One day a colored man who had been 
a soldier asked me if I got a pension. I told him I did not, and 
that when the war was over I was a prisoner in the hands of the 
guerrillas, and w^as telling him all about it, when I noticed Mr. 
Marlowe, who had been shaved, listening to us talk. When the 
colored man went out, the Major commenced asking me a lot of 
questions, all of which I could answer. Pretty soon I asked him 
who he was that seemed to know all about the time I was cap- 
tured. 

"Do you remember the man who rode a nice horse — the shoul- 
ders or collar of the horse was white ?" 

"Yes, sir, I mind him," I said. "It was that man saved me 
from dying right sudden. I mind that." 

"Well, I was that man," said he. Then he told me that he had 
often wondered where he had seen me before he came to my shop, 
and I told him I had wondered, too. It was sort of strange that 
the man who saved my life should be living here and me living 
here too. He comes very often and gets shaved, and he is one 
man from the Southern army that I'm mighty glad to see come. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

Getting Together. 

Some True Stories That Illustrate What Friends Americans Can Be, 
though Enemies Once— The Man Who Shot Me— Telling the Story 
of the Battle — The Captured Silverware — Drinking from the Little 
Cup in After Years — Plowing with the Yankees' Horses — A Little 
Rebel Bootblack — Hunting a New Home— A Northern Office Holder — 
Governor Campbell's Last Pardon. 

Chapter IV. contains an address delivered by Gen. W. D. 
Hamilton, who was colonel of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry. 

Some years after the war he went to Alabama looking after 
business matters there, and this business called him to Florence 
and Athens, Ala., at which places his regiment had been stationed. 
Those who read the General's speech will recall its lofty patriot- 
ism and its broad and generous charity. Having had part in 
the decoration services, and having lived for a time in Alabama, 
it occurred to the author that some reminiscences of this personal 
friend would be of interest to our readers generally. 

In speaking of the incident of the silverware the General said : 

In April, 1864, I was ordered by General Sherman to Florence, 
Ala., with two regiments of cavalry to feed on and destroy the 
corn and other supplies of the Tennessee Valley in that locality, 
on which General Forrest depended when going into Tennessee. 
I encamped on Cypress Creek, two miles froin the city, and sent 
out teams to collect food for inen and horses. 

One evening I found that one of the companies was using a 
large amount of silverware at supper, and learned, upon inquiry, 
that it had been brought in by the detail that had been collecting 
supplies. 

The sergeant in charge said the silverware had been found in 
a cave covered over with corn. It was found on the plantation 
of W. H. Key, on the river seven iniles below my cainp. I had 
the silverware brought to my tent, and the next morning sent it 
back to the family with a note telling the circumstances. I in- 
formed thein also that if they had any other valuables hidden to 
take the same to their home, as nothing of that kind would be 
disturbed. A little later Mr. Key called upon me at the camp 



GETTING TOGETHER. 



595 



to thank me for the return of his property. I was invited to 
dine with them, which invitation I accepted. 

While at the table Mr. Key was called out by the appearance 
of a squad of soldiers with wagons, who came to get supplies of 
corn, meat, etc. He asked what command they belonged to, and 
was informed that they were from the Ninth Ohio Cavalry. 

"The colonel of your regiment is at dinner with me," said Mr. 
Key. "Had you better not see him ?" 

"It is not worth while," replied the sergeant. "We are simply 
obeying orders." 

Mr. Key informed me of the situation, asking what he should 
do. As I had been ordered by General Sherman to collect sup- 
plies, I could do nothing but say to the. gentleman that I was 
powerless to prevent the men obeying my orders, and that I 
thought the men would act fairly with him. He produced the 
keys to the smokehouse and the corncrib, and the men took a por- 
tion of the smoked meats, leaving him a fair amount for family 
use. 

"I am placed in a most humiliating position, Mr. Key," said I. 
"Sitting at your table as your guest, my men come and take your 
provisions ; and I must make no effort to stay them because of 
my orders. It is indeed humiliating, but it is one of the unfor- 
tunate circumstances of war." 

My men, however, had treated him with courtesy and polite- 
ness, saying, as I had, that it was an enforced duty; and Mr. Key 
did not find fault. He realized that it was the duty of soldiers 
to obey orders. 

Twenty-five years from that time I was in that locality again, 
and Mr. Key and his wife were still living ; and when he learned 
I was in the neighborhood, he called and invited me to dine with 
him again. It so happened that it was the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of my first dinner with him. At that first dinner there was a shy 
little girl about four years of age, who came slowly into the room 
where I sat. She had been told there was a Yankee there, and 
her eyes were wide and fear seemed to dwell in their depths, not- 
withstanding the presence of her parents. It was not long, how- 
ever, until she sat upon my lap and I was telling her stories. 

In the twenty-five years that elapsed between dinners at the 
plantation of Mr. Key the little girl had grown to womanhood and 
had married and had gone with her husband to Florida ; but on 
this occasion of my visit she was at home, and when dinner was 
announced took me by the arm, and when seated at the table said : 
"This little silver cup was my first birthday present, and it was 
with the silver under the corn in the cave where your men found 
it. You sent it back to me, and now I want you to drink out of 
it for my sake." I did drink out of her little cup — I cannot re- 



296 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

member what — but it was like Bobby Burns's "Cup o' kindness, 
for Auld Lang Syne." 



General Hamilton related another story of Florence, Ala., that 
happened a few days after the return of the silverware to Mr. 
Key. A Mr. Patton, living some miles distant from camp, was 
without teams to cultivate a crop of corn. Both armies had 
drawn upon him for horses and there were but two left, and 
some of the Ninth Cavalry had taken the one horse that was fit 
for anything. The help had gone. Once there had been many 
slaves on the plantation, but these had disappeared and the 
planter was doing the best he could himself. 

When the one horse of any value was taken he went to the 
3ieadquarters of Colonel Hamilton and told how he was situated, 
saying: "j\Iy negroes have all gone, leaving none but the children 
and old folks — they who took care of us when we were chldren 
and who are too old to do much work. At the best I am not much 
>of a plowman, but was doing the best I could to put in a crop of 
corn, when your men came. Colonel, and broke up my team. I 
do not come with any complaint, as I know the laws of war ; but 
to satisfy my wife I have come to see you." 

"Your wife was right, Mr. Patton, and I may be able to do 
something for you ; at least, we will see what can be done. My 
men were acting under my orders," said Colonel Hamilton. "I 
have to keep my men mounted, but I have some horses whose 
backs have become so injured by the saddle that I cannot use 
them. Come, we will look over them and see what we can do for 
you." 

The Colonel was well satisfied that the horse his men left was 
a poor specimen, and he proposed to give Mr. Patton all the 
benefit of the trade that circumstances would permit. 

It is not inappropriate at this point to say that the Ninth Ohio 
Cavalry a few months before had been well mounted ; but they 
had traveled a long way, from Louisville to Nashville, and from 
Nashville to Athens and then to Florence. Many of the horses 
were sadly galled and unfit for service. Colonel Hamilton picked 
out a team and then gave him an extra horse, in case it was 
needed, and Mr. Patton cultivated his crop. 

In the fall of 1866 Mr. Patton was elected Governor of Ala- 



GETTING TOGETHER. 297 

l)ama, and Colonel Hamilton had occasion to go to Montgomery 
two days after he was inaugurated. He thought he would call 
upon the Governor, and presented his card. The official door- 
keeper took the card, saying to the Colonel that the retiring Gov- 
ernor and the newly inaugurated one were very busy and could 
not be seen. Colonel Hamilton, after leaving his card, turned 
away to look over the Statehouse and its grounds. Presently 
the official who had his card came hurrying to him, stating that 
Governor Patton wished to see him at once. There were present 
the retiring Military Governor, Parsons, and his staff; and Patton, 
meeting Hamilton in the middle of the great room, called Ex- 
Governor Parsons and his staff about him and said : "I want to 
introduce you to a Yankee ; and I take pleasure in saying to you 
in his presence, and to him in your presence, that he and the Ninth 
Ohio Cavalry did more to reconcile the people of North Alabama 
to our defeat than he has any knowledge of, for he taught us that, 
after all, there were gentlemen in the North." 

There have crept into this story of the prisons and cemeteries 
of Ohio, from time to time, little incidents that were foreign to 
the story proper ; but the reader will grasp the idea the author 
seeks to present — viz., the universal brotherhood of Americans. 

A Democratic Governor of Ohio was James E. Campbell, who 
retired from office as William AIcKinley succeeded to it. His last 
official pardon given a prisoner was one for a Union veteran, and 
the person who sought the pardon was a man who, when a lad, 
was known as "Johnny, the little Rebel bootblack." 

The Secretary of the Board of Managers of the Ohio Peni- 
tentiary during the Campbell administration was Mr. James 
Newman, who related the story of his boyhood : 

My home was in Mobile, and there were only my mother and 
myself. My father had been dead since my babyhood, and I was 
the man of the house. I was not yet twelve years of age, when 
one day the cannon thundered all about Mobile, and the men in 
gray marched away and strange men in blue came instead. 

I had been selling papers and blacking boots or doing any- 
thing I could to make a living ; and when these strangers came, I 
wondered what I should do. I first ventured into the camp of an 
Indiana regiment with a little bundle of papers and my blacking 
kit. They were rough but kindly men, these Hoosiers, and it 
was not long until I was on good terms with them. 

I was getting along quite well, and was proud of the fact that 



298 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

I could make mother fairly comfortable, when one night she sud- 
denly grew worse, and I was frightened when she turned her 
white face toward me and whispered: "Jimmie, Jimmie, I'm go- 
ing. Be a good boy !" 

The Indiana men saw traces of tears on my cheeks when I 
went to the camp the next morning. At first they joked me 
about some one giving me a whipping ; but when I did not an- 
swer them, and when they saw me trying to swallow a lump that 
would continue to rise in my throat, one of the men put his 
arm about me and said: "What is the matter to-day, Johnny?" 

I told him then of the mother that was lying dead in our poor 
little home. 

"You've been working to keep that sick mother for a good 
while, haven't you, Johnny ?" 

I nodded assent. I could not say much. 

"Well, run on home," said he, "and come back in a couple of 
hours. Have you got a place to bury her?" he asked as I was 
hastening away. 

"Yes," I replied. "Some society in the city will see to that." 

"All right," he answered. "Tell them, Johnny, that we are 
going to get the coffin." 

And they did — those great, rugged, fearless, fighting veterans 
of the Hoosier State ; they bought the finest coffin that could be 
gotten in Mobile. 

"Johnny's maw," said one lank, tow-headed private, "Johnny's 
maw isn't goin' to be put away in no unpainted coffin ; there's 
goin' to be some trimmin's on this one, ef we hev to stand the 
sutler off." The sutler got a goodly portion of Lige Davis's pay ; 
but poor, weak Lige meant all right. 

When it was all over I went to camp and lived with them, and 
they made me a little blue suit out of a Federal uniform and, pro- 
posed that when they went home I should go with them, and they 
would see that I should have a home and a chance to go to 
school. I went with them and had a home with one Jim, a mem- 
ber of the regiment, who seemed to think well of me. His wife 
was a mother to me during the short time I lived with them. Jim 
took home with him an unfortunate habit that got him in trouble 
more than once in the army. When sober, Jim was a kind man ; 
when he took to drinking, he was a demon. The poor wife had 
hoped that he would return to her free from the grip of the 
monster. 

It was less than a month after he returned that he went to the 
countv seat and came home the wild beast. I got out of bed to 
put his horse away, and then he proposed to beat me. I eluded 
him and hid until he was asleep. That night I packed my few 
belongings and in the morning I said good-by to the poor woman,. 



GETTING TOGETHER. 299 

whom I knew would have been better off with Jim asleep on some 
battlefield. 

I have often thought there is many a Jim that is only a poor 
old drunkard hanging on to life that might have been a dead 
hero had the leaden messenger only have come ; but I'm preach- 
ing a sermon now instead of telling my story, so I'll go on. 

I had heard of a man by the name of McFarland, who was good 
to homeless boys, and inquired the way to his house. The snow 
lay deep in fields and wood, and I trudged on and learned that 
McFarland was in his woods hauling logs. When I drew near, 
I saw he was struggling with a big log that was too much for him. 
I grasped a handspike lying near, and in a moment the log was 
on the sled. He looked at me a moment and asked : "Who are 
you ?" 

I told him who I was and what I wanted. He stood whistling 
softly to himself a few moments, and cried to the horses : 
"Get up !" 

When we got out of the woods he turned one way and I an- 
other. I felt the lump rising again that was there when mother 
died, but I did not say a word. 

Presently I heard him shout: "Where the devil are you going?" 

"To hunt a home," I called back. 

"I thought you wanted to live with me?" 

"You didn't tell me" — I began. 

"Don't stand there in the snow jawing about it. Come on !" 

I helped him to put the horses away, and then we went to 
the house, where supper was waiting. And O such a supper ! In 
fancy I catch the odor from the kitchen often, and I'm hungry 
in a moment. 

"Mother," said he, "this is a little Johnny Reb that the Sixty- 
Ninth brought home from Mobile. Do you suppose we can find 
a place for him?" 

"We have always a place for a good boy," she answered gently. 

I lived, with them eight years, going to school in winter and 
working on the farm in summer. I became a school-teacher and 
later came to Ohio and bought out a Democratic newspaper in 
Piqua ; and, as you know, I am Secretary to the Board of Man- 
agers of the Ohio Penitentiary, and all I have on earth I owe to 
those Indiana soldiers. 

Such was the story Newman told the newspaper man, and later 
the newspaper man had a story for him. 

There came to the Ohio Penitentiary one day in summer a 
man \yliose name was given as Samuel ]\Iiller. The reporter met 
him and was impressed with the rugged, honest face of the 
man ; and when he had learned the story of his supposed crime, 



.300 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

he was impressed with the old man's innocence. It was a real 
estate deal and a few political enemies that made it possible for 
this man, who had fought for his country in the Mexican War 
and the war of the sixties, to be a convict. 

It was a legal outrage, and the reporter set about helping the 
old man. The strange thing about it was that he did not go at 
once to Newman , but he forgot the story of the newsboy for the 
time being, but later, recalling it, he went to the clerk of the Board 
and said there was an Indiana soldier in the penitentiary who was 
innocent. The pretended crime was committed in Greenville, 
Darke County, Ohio, although the accused lived in Indiana. 
Finally Newman took the matter up ; but only a day or two were 
left, as Governor Campbell was to leave the office and he (News- 
man) would soon be supplanted. 

The old soldier convict was sent for. When he came into the 
presence of the Secretary, he stood with bared head. 

"You are Number ?" 

"Yes, sir," answered the old man. 

"Your name is Miller?" 

"Yes, sir; Samuel Miller." 

"You were an Indiana soldier, I am told." 

"Yes, sir." 

"What regiment?" asked Newman. 

"Iwas captain of Company B, Sixty-Ninth Indiana." 

"What?" asked Newman, excitedly. 

The prisoner repeated the statement. 

"Did you ever hear of 'Johnny' Newman ? The boys called 
him Johnny." 

''The little Rebel bootblack ?" inquired the prisoner. 

"Yes, the little Rebel bootblack." 

"I knew the boy well. Some one of the regiment took him 
home with him ; but I wouldn't know him, it's been so long." 

"It's been a long time, has it not?" 

"A long time, yes." And the prisoner looked away with misty 
eyes. 

"Captain Sam Miller," spoke the Secretary sharply to hide the 
break in his voice, "Captain, I am that little Rebel bootblack, and 
I'm going to get you out of this place." 

"Are you little Johnny ? Are you — are you really ? And the 
old man was shivering as with the ague. 



GETTING TOGETHER. 301 

Then the Secretary put his arms around the old man, who was 
sobbing pitifully. "Go back and take it easy," he was saying. 
"I'm going to see Governor Campbell right now." 

The Governor was alone, and Newman said: "I've come for a 
favor that I must have." 

"I haven't an office left. Newman. McKinley will have them 
all to-morrow." 

"I don't want an office ; I want something better." And then 
he told the Governor the story. 

The Governor sat a moment musing, a far-away look in his 
eyes, and said : "Tell the old man that you will hand him his 
pardon in the morning." 



CHAPTERXXIII. 
The End at Last. 

A Hero or a Dunce — The Story of a Spy — He Was Captured at Newark, 
Ohio — Sentenced to Be Hung — How It Ended — One Hundred Dollars 
Reward Offered for a Prisoner — Dangers of the Ice Bridge — The 
Death of Lincoln — Colonel Hill Announced It — His Letter to the 
Sandusky Sentinel — The Money of the Prisoners in Bank — A Pathetic 
Poem — Going Home at Last — A Visit to Johnson's Island in 1904 — 
The End. 

The Sandusky Register, the only source of information con- 
cerning the events at Johnson's Island, told a seemingly incred- 
ible story. It was on January 13, 1865. The paper stated that 
on the preceding day there arrived in Sandusky a pleasant-ap- 
pearing, honest-faced, intelligent young man, who inquired for 
the provost marshal. He was directed to that functionary, who 
listened in surprise to the young man's story. He informed the 
official that he was Lieutenant McClung, of the First Tennessee 
Artillery. He was captured by General Stoneman December 14, 
1864, and paroled by the General to report in Knoxville, which 
he did. At this point General Carter paroled him. He was 
allowed to go wherever he wished in the city, and this parole 
was good for forty-eight hours. He was then sent to Louisville 
under guard. How long he remained there, or under whose 
charge, the volunteer prisoner did not state. He had been in- 
formed, however, that his destination was Johnson's Island. 

He had remained in Louisville as long as he felt it- his duty 
to stay, when he was expected at that former summer resort on 
Lake Erie ; and without waiting for Uncle Sam to provide him 
with passes on the railroads, and to arral^ge for his board and 
lodging, he set out one morning from Louisville and reached 
Sandusky January 12, by way of Cleveland. 

He had traveled by easy stages, and no one in the North had 
an idea that he was a Confederate officer traveling leisurely to 
prison. The astonished provost marshal, not to be outdone by a 
^'Johnny," had the gentleman from Alabama remain in the city 



THE END AT LAST. 



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until after dinner, as the menu at the West House was somewhat 
superior to that in the "Bull Pen." 

Lieutenant AlcClung did not ask for an escort to the island, nor 
did he need it ; but Provost Marshal Jenny thought he should 
at least have a guard of honor, and thus the young man went to 
the island. 

This story sounds somewhat "fishy" after forty years have 
elapsed to think it over, but it was told in all seriousness by a 
paper which at that time preferred to consider a Confederate 
in the light of heavy man or villain instead of leading man or 
hero in the national tragedy then being played. If Lieutenant 
McClung is yet living, the author suggests his writing to the 
Confederate Veteran. 

From Newark, Ohio, a dispatch went out to the country say- 
ing that Lieutenant Davis, of the Confederate army, had been 
arrested at that place. He was on the South-bound train. He 
had lately been in Canada, and was making for the South via 
Washington. 

At Newark he was to change cars, take the Central Ohio to 
Wheeling, and the Baltimore and Ohio from there to Washing- 
ton. As he stepped from the train the provost marshal of New- 
ark placed him under arrest. The superintendent of the San- 
dusky, Mansfield, and Newark Railway was on the train, and 
being told who the man was, had sent a dispatch from Mt. \^er- 
non, Ohio, requesting his arrest. 

The arrest which ended his career as a spy was brought about 
through a memory of his face by two men who had been in 
Andersonville Prison. Among the thousands in that dreadful 
stockade were Archibald Parker, a young fellow of some eight- 
een years of age, who belonged to the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry, 
and Frank Beverstock, of Lexington, Ohio, a well-known busi- 
ness man of that village, who had gone into the army. Both 
of these men had been taken prisoner, and both had been in 
Andersonville during a period that Lieutenant Davis was there 
as one of the officials. 

At Monroeville young Parker caught sight of the man whom 
he had seen frequently down in Georgia, and he immediately 
boarded the train and took a seat near the Southerner, with a 



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view to having him arrested at some point where there were 
United States officials. 

The train on its way South passed through Lexington, the 
home of Beverstock, who boarded the train there on his way to 
Columbus. Lieutenant Davis was indifferently watching the 
landscape and the villages through which they passed, little 
dreaming that there was any one in Ohio that would know him, 
and that there sat near him a young man who seldom took his 
eyes from him. Beverstock entered the car and, walking down 
the aisle looking for a convenient seat, dropped into that beside 
Davis. They entered into conversation in a casual manner, as 
travelers do, and presently Beverstock was impressed with the 
idea that he had met this gentleman before somewhere, and be- 
gan to search his memory for the time and place. It soon dawned 
upon him that his companion was none other than the lieutenant 
he had often seen at Andersonville. and he asked : "What is your 
name, may I ask?" 

"My name is Cummings, and I live in Canada,"" replied the 
Southerner, as he produced a pass or letter permitting him to 
visit the United States. 

'T imagined I had met you before," answered Beverstock. 

"Is that so? Where, may I ask?" 

"At Andersonville Prison."" 

"Where is that?" 

"It is supposed to be next door to hell,'" said Beverstock sharp- 
ly, "but it is in Georgia." 

"In what way do you connect me with that place?" asked 
Davis, as he made an attempt to treat the matter indifferently. 

"I think your name is Davis, and that you were the lieutenant 
that visited the prison every day," replied B-everstock. 

"It is one of those cases where one man closely resembles an- 
other," answered the lieutenant. 

Nothing more was said just then, and presently Beverstock 
observed Superintendent Stewart, of the S., M., and N. road, 
and remarked to Davis : "There is a man I do know. Excuse me, 
I wish to talk to him a few moments." 

Davis was quite willing to excuse his inquisitive acquaintance, 
but began to get uneasy. As Beverstock arose to go to see the 
superintendent, he caught sight of young Parker motioning ta 



THE END AT LAST. 305 

him. Beverstock and Parker had never met, although both were 
in prison at xVndersonville at the same time. 

■'Are you with that man?" asked Parker, as Beverstock drew 
near. 

"I am not with him, exactly, but I don't intend to let him out 
of my sight." 

"Neither do I intend to let him out of my sight until something 
is done," said the young man. 

"Do you know him ?" asked Beverstock. 

"I do ; he was an officer at Andersonville." 

"Were you ever in Andersonville?" asked Beverstock. 

"You bet I was, and I know that man." 

"I know him too, and we'll get him," said the man from Lex- 
ington. 

The superintendent of the road was informed quietly of the 
find, and when the train pulled into Mt. Vernon he went to the 
telegraph office and sent word to the provost marshal to be at 
the train on its arrival. 

Both Beverstock and Parker kept a sharp watch on Davis, and 
when Newark was reached the provost official stepped up to the 
stranger and said : "You are my prisoner." 

The valise owned by Lieutenant Davis was searched, a dozen 
pairs of ladies' kid gloves were found, and an old Testament on 
the fly leaf of which was written. "Winchester, September 7th. 
1862," and on another leaf a mess account dated at a camp near 
Charleston, S. C. 

He finally owned up, told his name, and was sent to Columbus 
for further examination. The next public record found in the 
papers concerning Lieutenant Davis was in the Ohio State Jour- 
nal of February i, which said: 

The Rebel spy. Lieutenant Davis, captured on the Sandusky 
passenger train, has been tried by court-martial at Cincinnati, 
and found guilty of being a Confederate spy and ordered to be 
executed on Johnson's Island February 17. The finding of the 
court was approved by the President. 

On February 3 the Sandusky Register announced : 

It will be remembered that S. B. Davis, alias Willoughby 
Cummings, was arrested some two weeks ago near Newark. 
The specifications show that he was a spy in the service of the 
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3o6 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Confederacy, and the court so found, and he was sentenced to be 
hanged between the hours of lo a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, February 
17. The Lieutenant was brought to the Island from Cincinnati 
the first of the week. At Monroeville he saw a lady enter the 
car who closely resembled a relative, and at sight of one who 
brought back thoughts of home and loved ones his pent-up feel- 
ings gave way, and, as if he were a child again and sorrowed 
at some childish care, the tears streamed down his cheeks. 

On arriving at this city he begged the officer in charge to 
remove the irons from his wrists, which request was at once 
complied with, and he thus walked through the city and over 
the ice to the prison. 

On the way over he was met by Lieutenant Calver, of the 
One Hundred and Twenty-Third Ohio Regiment, who recog- 
nized him as one of his old prison keepers. Lieutenant Calver 
said that he knew nothing of the treatment accorded the Union 
privates by Lieutenant Davis, but that he had been treated with 
courtesy and kindness by the Southern officers. On arriving at 
the Island Davis wrote to his personal friends and also to Pres- 
ident Lincoln, to whom he stated his case and asked for a reprieve. 

January 6, 1865, the Detroit Tribune says: 

Davis, at the time of his arrest, was on his way to Richmond 
to get a commission for Young, one of the St. Albans raiders. 
It was he who went to Richmond and brought back in safety 
Burleigh's commission, concerning which so much bluster was 
indulged in during the trial of the latter. 

February 13 the Sandusky Register states: 

The commandant of the Union forces at Sandusky gave notice 
to the papers that citizens will not receive permission to attend 
the execution of Lieutenant Davis. 

On February 18 the same paper states: 

The sentence of Lieut. S. B. Davis, Confederate spy, 
who was to have been executed yesterday, was changed to im- 
prisonment at Fort Delaware during the war. The order com- 
muting his sentence was not made known to him until nine 
o'clock yesterday, and at 9 :30 he was on the train en route to 
his future place of confinement. He seemed confident from the 
first that he would not hang, but on Thursday his hopes and fears 
were about evenly balanced. The manner of making his fate 
known to him was conducted so quietly that he had no chance 
of thanking any one. He is a nephew of General Trimble, for 
merly President of the B. and O. Railroad, and not a nephew, 
as asserted, of the President of the Confederacy. 



THE END AT LAST. 307 

The subsequent fate of Lieutenant Davis is unknown to the 
writer. That his Hfe was spared is known, and he and his friends 
owe it to the great heart of Lincohi. 

On January 5, 1865, a prisoner, who by some means secured 
a complete Federal uniform, walked out of the prison with the 
guards attending the roll call. Of course in due time he was 
missed, but no one was able to tell where he was, and so the 
commandant offered a reward of one hundred dollars for his 
recapture. 

Commenting upon this circumstance, the paper remarks : 

Last April a search for Union uniforms was made, and several 
pairs of blue pants were found. Since that time repeated searches 
have been instituted for clothing and other contraband articles, 
and on several occasions blouses and fatigue caps were found, 
and it was supposed that everything had been removed, but at 
the muster and search yesterday afternoon over a dozen pairs of 
light blue pants and two fatigue caps were obtained. Some of 
the pants had recently been provided with stripes by the pris- 
oners in the style of officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps. 

The Register of January 10 said : 

Col. Daniel R. Hundley, Thirty-First Alabama, escaped from 
Johnson's Island about 9:30 on the morning of the 2d inst., and 
on the morning of the 6th was captured by Peter Kessler at 
Fremont, Ohio. A reward of one hundred dollars had been 
offered by Colonel Hill for the capture of Colonel Hundley, which 
reward was paid to Mr. Kessler, who was very much pleased 
with the roll of greenbacks. 

The reward of one hundred dollars was offered for the re- 
capture of Lieut. Rufus Jones. These escaping prisoners most 
always provide themselves with forged orders or passes ; doubt- 
less Lieutenant Jones had one. 

Colonel Hundley undertook to pass himself off as Private 
Charles A. Whittier, and in aid of his plans provided himself 
with a special order on which the signature of Capt. J. F. Hunt- 
ington, A. A. A. G., was closely imitated, announcing that "Pri- 
vate Charles A. Whittier is hereby detailed for special duty in 
Detroit. He is ordered to report forthwith to the provost mar- 
shal of that place." 

The Colonel is a man of great intelligence and of high literary 
attainments. Kessler had been a member of the old Eighth 
Ohio, and had seen too many Southerners to be taken in by the 
Colonel's papers or United States clothing. 



3o8 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

The Sandusky Register of December 4, 1863, said: 

There are now two thousand five hundred and thirty-six offi- 
cers of the Confederate army at Johnson's Island. Packa^^es 
for them are daily arriving from all parts of the North contain- 
ing clothing, boots, game, wine, food, and all kinds of luxuries. 
In this way their imprisonment has been the most utter farce, 
while our soldiers have been almost starved at Richmond. These 
things were permitted for a while, but are changed now. The 
packages are now confiscated and sold, or given away to the 
soldiers of the post. All prisoners will be denied any but ordi- 
nary rations. 

A burying ground for the prisoners has recently been laid 
out under the supervision of Gen. Jeff Thompson, and has been 
neatly fenced in. Deaths occur at the rate of from one to three 
a day. Whenever a prisoner dies, he is buried by six of his 
comrades, who carry the body to its assigned place, dig a shallow 
grave (for the limestone strata prevents digging graves more 
than three feet), and quietly inter their comrade. 

The Register of April 8, 1865, said: 

Thomas F. Berry, the spy who murdered a fellow-prisoner 
at Johnson's Island sometime ago, together with nine witnesses 
from the prison, left yesterday for Cairo, from which point he 
will be sent through the lines for trial in some one of the States 
in revolt. We may be mistaken, but it seems no more than right 
that he should be held for trial in the county where the offense 
was committed. He was taken away in irons, and seemed the 
most dejected person of the entire party. 

No previous notice of this affair could be found in the papers. 
Who he killed was not mentioned, nor the occasion for the kill- 
ing. By following the files of this paper closely, one is enabled 
to gather a deal of the unwritten history of Johnson's Island. 

This history was merely local items of occurrences as they 
happened. Often, as Lieutenant Cunningham, in his interesting 
story, "Plain Living at Johnson's Island," wrote: "The paper pub- 
lished a story one day and contradicted or changed it afterwards." 
This was well put, but even at that there is a deal of history 
gathered in three years by a live daily paper. 

The author of the Century Artiele and the Register were evi- 
dently not of the same opinion concerning the appearance of the 
prisoners mustered for exchange during the spring of 1865. 

The Register of February 25, 1865, stated: 

Yesterday three hundred prisoners were brought over frorii 



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Johnson's Island and were immediately loaded upon the Sandusky, 
Mansfield, and Newark train for Point Lookout, for exchange. 
They were a hearty, healthy-looking set of men, giving no evi- 
dence of starvation. They embraced all classes, from lieutenants 
to colonels. They were chosen for exchange in the order of 
their priority of capture. This squad makes something over five 
hundred who have left for exchange. There yet remains on the 
Island nearly two thousand five hundred, many of whom are of 
high rank. ^lost of these are anxious to be exchanged, but their 
anxiety is greater to return to their suffering families than to the 
army. 

But few of them have any confidence in the success of their 
cause, and these few base their faith not in their own ability to 
achieve their independence, but upon foreign assistance. 

Many of those that left yesterday were well-dressed, and all 
seemed comfortably clad. For months there had been a great 
crystal bridge between Sandusky and the Island. That stern 
king, the north wind, had built it, and marching squadrons in 
blue and heart-weary hosts in gray passed over it. Then about 
March i the sun broke through the gray clouds, and the south 
wind laughed at Jack Frost, and the bridge w'ithout piers began 
to give way. 

Goiug from Sandusky to Cedar Point March i were four men 
in a sleigh. One of these w^as a soldier mail carrier. Horse, 
sleigh, and all went down into the icy waters. In some myste- 
rious manner three men escaped, but the mail carrier went down 
to death. 

It was on the morning of that day that the commandant of the 
Island made knowai to Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Atkins and Capt. 
Vincent G. Wynne, prisoners of war, that thev had been chosen 
to go to Camp Douglas, near Indianapolis, where was a large 
depot for Confederate privates, and distribute to them quantities 
of clothing. This clothing was a portion of the proceeds of a 
cotton sale at New York, w'hich sale had been made for that pur- 
pose. The suggestion was made that the ice bridge was now 
considered unsafe, and if the}' were content to wait a few days 
boats would be running. Naturally the Confederate officers sug- 
gested that they must wait his convenience ; but if they were to 
choose they would go at once, as the men in Camp Douglas were 
suffering for clothing. Colonel Hill thought his men not less 
daring than the prisoners, and made the detail to accompany the 
officers to Indianapolis. The facts were, it was not a detail, but 
a chance for an officer and ten men to accompany these Confed- 



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erates. Many more volunteers came forward than wgre needed, 
but ten were selected, and out they went upon the breaking ice. 
It was an escape, pure and simple ; the ice was creaking, and no 
one knew what moment a great seam would open, or at what 
time they might be left upon an island of ice. It was a "heart 
disease" march, but they finally landed at Sandusky in safety. 
On March 5 the Register said : 

The great old ice bridge between this city and Johnson's Is- 
land commenced to move yesterday about half past two, and in 
about half an hour it seemed clear water as far as the eye could 
penetrate. The ice over the bay the past winter has been thicker 
and stronger than has been known for many years, whilst the 
length of time it has remained has never been exceeded in the 
memory of the oldest inhabitant. 

April II, 1865. 

There was a salute of two hundred guns fired at Johnson's 
Island yesterday in honor of the surrender of Lee and his army. 
The old thirty-two-pound Parrott's jarred every house in the city, 
rattling the window panes like an earthquake. 

While the Federal forces were having a jubilee that the long 
and desperate war was nearing the end, the faithful men who 
had waited with weary patience the day of exchange that did 
not come were listening with sorrowing hearts to the roaring 
guns and the cheers. A number of their own men who had ap- 
plied for the amnesty oath ran up a flag of the United States over 
Block Number One, where were fifty or sixty Confederate officers. 
"This," said the Register, "called forth the impotent wrath of the 
other class of tenants of the 'Bull Pen.' A large crowd of offi- 
cers and men stood on the parapet to hear what defeated malice 
could say when plunged into such humiliating depths of disaster. 
The amnesty men sent back replies equal in force and wit to the 
shots from the other side." 

The man who is artist enough to get in on the winning side of 
any great controversy is not confined to any particular locality. 

April 15, 1865. 
There is gloom in Sandusky to-day. 

This brief sentence told the story. The North had won the 
great struggle, but lost the man who would have made the bitter 
days in the South less bitter. The sounds of rejoicing suddenly 
ceased, and there was moaning and weeping in the North. Well 



THE END AT LAST. 311 

would the South have wept with us could they have known the 
reconstruction days — days that could not have been had the 
warm-hearted Lincoln lived. How the soldiers of the North 
loved him ! There were many reasons why they should. If 
ever a sleepy boy on picket was sentenced to death for the crime 
of going to sleep, and was saved because some heart-broken moth-' 
er pleaded for his life, it was Lincoln that saved him. The stern, 
implacable Stanton, the mighty but stony-hearted War Secretary, 
signed every death warrant — eagerly, it seemed — but there was 
one higher than Stanton, and rarely indeed did the mother appeal 
in vain. 

Frank B. Carpenter, the artist, in a book published some twenty- 
five years ago, relates a story of Lincoln worthy of being often 
told, and it is given in this connection : 

A young lad, the last one left to an old mother, had fallen asleep 
one night on guard. He had marched and fought, and was worn 
out when placed on duty. The>- found the poor bo}' asleep and 
reported him, and it was the old story — a death sentence. Then 
just before the time for his legalized murder the story came 
to an old woman at Lancaster, Pa. There was no time for her 
to sit and bemoan his fate. Thad Stevens was the Congress- 
man from his district, and out of her scant means she took enough 
money to go to Washington. There was little time to lose, and 
Stevens was soon found. 

"You have no idea, madam, how busy a man Mr. Lincoln is," 
said the Congressman. "It will be almost impossible to see 
hirri." 

"O, but, Mr. Stevens, he wouldn't refuse to see me if he knew 
that they were going to kill my only boy." 

The Congressman and the sorrowing woman were soon wait- 
ing at the White House. The doorkeeper knew Stevens well, 
and took his card to the President, though there were many 
waiting. At once the President asked what he could do for the 
Congressman from Lancaster. 

"Mr. President," said Stevens sadly, "I could not refuse a 
poor old woman from my district who is here to see you. Her 
only son" — 

"Sentenced to be shot, I suppose ?" broke in the President. 

"Yes; sentenced to be shot — he is a mere boy. Two older 
brothers were killed in battle," replied Stevens. 

"Bring her in," said Mr. Lincoln ; "I'll give her a moment.'" 
When he looked up, there stood before him a spare woman some 
fifty years of age. Her dress was plain, and her queer little 
bonnet had crape upon it. He saw that her lips were trembling. 



312 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

and in her faded eyes there was an appeal so pathetic that he 
felt a lump rising in his throat. Finally she spoke, "O, Mr. Lin- 
coln, you'll give me back my little boy," and then she shook 
with sobs and could say no more. 

"Mr. Stevens tells me that you have given two boys to your 
country that were killed in battle." 

''Yes, I did ; and it seems to me you ought to let me have 
one." 

"You shall have this one," he was saying to himself, but the 
mother did not hear what the great man murmured. He turned 
to his desk and wrote hurriedly, rang for a messenger, and a 
pardon was telegraphed to the front where the boy was awaiting 
death. 

When Mr. Stevens informed her that her son had been saved, 
she stood for a moment looking at him ; and the tall, ungainly- 
looking man seemed a god, since he had saved her boy. Then 
she sought to kneel before him, and had he permitted she would 
have kissed his feet. He spoke to her very gently, saying that 
he was very busy and she must ,go. 

"I haven't thanked you," she said brokenly, as Mr. Stevens 
led her to the door. But the President had seen her thanks in 
the faded eyes that lighted up when they told her her boy was 
saved. 

He was the best man in the world to the poor old woman. He 
was now dead, and the North was in tears. 
The Register said editorially on April 17: 

Colonel Hill, we understand, has given orders to the guard to 
shoot down the first Rebel who exults over the death of Pres- 
ident Lincoln. 

Under the same date Colonel Hill replied, the reply being cred- 
itable to the honor and the humanity of the man : 

Ah'. Editor: The article in your paper [referring to the above] 
is entirely incorrect, and places me in a position indefensible. In 
no possible view of the case could I be allowed to forget that 
the men in my hands are unarmed prisoners, whom it is as 
much my duty to protect as to retain. If I supposed that 
any one of them had an actual agency in the assassination, cer- 
tainly neither the duty nor the privilege would be mine, on my 
own motion, to shoot him or punish him in any way. Much 
less could I order men to shoot those whom I could not suspect 
as having any agency in the assassination ; and from the first I 
felt sure the prisoners would generally disapprove the act. . . . 
In justice to the prisoners, let me say right here that before I 
had indicated my purpose to any of them, as far as I could see, 
every one who heard the news, of the more than two thousand 



THE END AT LAST. 313 

two lumdred officers before me, appeared to be depressed and 
sorrowful over what had occurred. They seemed to reaHze it as 
a terrible calamity to them as well as us. 

Many of the prisoners had money. The commandant of the 
post keeps the prisoners' money on deposit at the First National 
Bank of Sandusky, and the balance there yesterday was %2t,,- 
444.87. 

In the reminiscences of Camp Chase, the reader will recall the 
story of Capt. W. H. Herbert, of Sandusky, Ohio, who was a 
prisoner there in 1862. In conversation with the gentleman in 
September, IQ04, he mentioned a poem that the Confederate Vet- 
eran published in January, 1901, and which was written by Col. 
C. \A'. Frazier, a friend of Mrs. Herbert, then Miss Elizabeth 
Davis Lea. The copy furnished the author was copied by the 
lady from the original written on Johnson's Island while Colonel 
Frazier, of [Memphis, was a prisoner there : 

The Captive on L.\ke Erie. 

A captive on a lake-girt isle 

Looks on the waters sadly. 
His thoughts on one whose blessed smile 

Would welcome him so gladly ; 
But that beneath a Northern sky— 

A sky to him so dreary — 
He's doomed to pine and vainly sigh. 

Away out on Lake Erie. 

The winds that w'aft to others bliss 

But mock him with their tone; 
The lips are pale they stoop to kiss 

With yearning for his home. 
The waves that dash upon the beach 

Keep ceaseless watch and weary ; 
The}' chant of joys beyond the reach 

Of him who looks on Erie. 

They bear to him his mother's tone. 

His sister's mournful song, 
Until he longs to be alone 

Far from that captive throng ; 
And when he lays him down to sleep, 

With aching heart and weary. 
The winds and waves his vigils keep, 

Dear dreamer on Lake Erie. 



314 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

But all who love him pray to God 

To bless his precious life 
With patience to endure the rod, 

With faith to close the strife, 
And look beyond the dreary morn 

To brighter days and better, 
When native winds shall fan his brow. 

And only fond arms fetter. 

On June 21 the Sandusky Register said. 

Several carloads of Confederates left last evening on the Cleve 
land and Toledo train, and quite a large number awaited tho 
early train on the C, H., and D. road. 

No further mention was made of the prisoners on the Island 
There were a number kept for a time who were not prisoners 
of war, but men charged with various offenses that only time 
would settle. 

The Confederate Veteran of July, 1900, says : 

A few years ago Col. Robert Alexander, of Texas, who was 
making a tour of the lakes, stopped off at Sandusky and went 
over to Johnson's Island to see the spot where so many of his 
former comrades in arms had been confined. 

As he passed slowly through the cemetery reading the names 
upon the headstones, he was seen to suddenly lift his hat and 
fall upon his knees beside one of the low green mounds. There 
were tears in his eyes as he bent his head over the grave, and 
they trickled down his furrowed cheeks and fell upon the green 
sward beneath which rested all that was mortal of one who had 
been very dear to him and for whose mysterious loss he had 
been inconsolable. Colonel and Mrs. Alexander were childless. 
They had years before the war taken as their own the orphaned 
son of a sister of Mrs. Alexander. The war came on, the boy 
enlisted, was captured, and died in a Northern prison. Colonel 
Alexander never knew what his fate had been until he visited 
Johnson's Island. Inscribed upon the headstone were the words : 
"James E. Peel, Captain Eighth Arkansas Infantry ; aged twenty- 
four years." 

The same article states : 

The cemetery where two thousand two hundred and sixty Con- 
federates are buried attracts the most attention. In 1886, when,, 
through the influence of Gov. J. B. Foraker and his adjutant gen- 
eral. Gen. H. A. Axline, an appropriation was obtained from the 
United States government to inclose Camp Chase, there was suffi- 
cient to build not only the wall at Camp Chase, but to build the 



THE END AT LAST. 315 

iron fence around this cemetery and put in order the last resting 
place of those buried there, who are dear to the South. 

Whatever of differences may exist politically toward this dis- 
tinguished son of Ohio, the South will not forget his great heart 
.in this initial work in preserving the graves of those who died 
in prison and far from their loved ones. 

The view of the cemetery on Johnson's Isalnd (see page 191) 
was taken September 24, 1904, by Mr. J. T. Gamble, and is a very 
realistic and natural picture of the cemetery. The reader can 
form some idea of the quiet beauty of the place. 

There lives in Sandusky a gentleman who had been a prisoner 
at Camp Chase, Capt. William H. Herbert, and the author wrote 
to him about the condition of the cemetery there. He replied that 
the cemetery is kept in good condition, and every year he accom- 
panies the Union veterans to their decoration services, and then 
they take the boat for the Island and put flowers on every Con- 
federate grave and a wreath on each headstone. 

Whatever may be done at other Northern cemeteries where lie 
the Southern prisoners of war, it is with pleasure I record that 
in this State the Blue (growing gray) and the Gray (growing 
grayer) go side by side and put flowers on the graves of the men 
who battled for the South. 

When his story began there were flowers everywhere. The 
chill of autumn is now at hand, and the blooms are fading. It 
was a beautiful September day, however, when I visited John- 
son's Island to see the resting place of the dead and view the old 
forts and walk over the ground where the prisoners once restless- 
ly paced. I was accompanied by Mr. J. T. Gamble, who had his 
photographic equipment with him to show the reader what the 
Island looks like to-day. As Shakespeare said of sleep, 'Tt knits 
up the raveled sleave of care," and time wears away the angles 
of the redoubt and levels the frowning breastw^orks. At present 
there is little of the Johnson's Island of forty years ago. Two 
hundred and six Southern soldiers — 150 known and 56 un- 
known — sleep there under the hickory trees. Hawthorn bushes, 
with their flaming scarlet berries, here and there bend over the 
graves ; but most of the trees in the cemetery are young shellbark 
hickories with leaves turning yellow and falling with the nuts, 
bedecking the low mounds as though it were a gala day. 

The deep wood lying back of the cemetery is composed almost 



3i6 THE SrORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

entirely of second-growth hickory. The visitor to the Island is 
prone to sit on the veranda of the pavilion and watch the scene 
upon the bay until he wearies of its quiet beauty. Then he strolls 
over into the cemeter}- and on into the woods, and goes to gath- 
ering the waiting nuts. 

Cedar Point, three miles across Sandusky Bay, has become 
quite a summer resort, and Johnson's Island, with its infinitely 
greater natural attractions, has simply raised its crop of corn 
and hay, and sleepily dozed through succeeding summers, until 
this last summer. 

The improvements are but beginning, and in a year or two 
they will doubtless be asking the South to come and visit and 
loll in the shade where the murmurs of the waters are answered 
by the whispers of the leaves. 

One of the little circulars issued by the Johnson's Island people 
reads : "When you are in Sandusky don't fail to visit the his- 
torical Johnson's Island, and the famous forts and magazines, 
and where the Confederate officers are buried." 

The visitors to the Island are principally young people, who 
dance awhile or swing, and then go down into the woods near 
where these Southern men are so cjuietly lying and talk of life 
and love until, perchance, the white headstones that the govern- 
ment placed in the little inclosure reminds them that there is 
awaiting them somewhere something strange and chill, some- 
thing that inevitably follows the dancing and the laughing and 
the loving. 

The Island is truly a beautiful spot. The trees, lovely in their 
afternoon dress of yellow and scarlet, and with here and there 
patches of green, lure the visitor wath their ripened charms more 
readily than the sirens of the laughing lake. 

As the vague autumn sun sank that evening behind the forest 
of gayly turbaned hickories we sailed away regretfully from the 
"Ouick and the Dead." 



WM. H. KNAUSS AND FAMILY. 





MRS. JOHN T. GAMBLE MRS. ORL.\ND W. FLETCHER. 

Daughters of Mr. :in 1 Mr.s. William H. Knauss. 





JOHN T. G.\MBLE. 



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APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 



ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY. 

The charter of the Antietam National Cemetery granted by the Leg- 
islature of Maryland at the January session of 1864, and amended and re- 
enacted at the January session of 1865, provides for the purchase, inclos- 
ing, and ornamenting of ten acres of land — a part of the battlefield of 
Antietam — as a burial and final resting place for the soldiers who fell in 
the battle of Antietam. This battle of Antietam was called by the Con- 
federates Sharpsburg. 

It sets forth the duty of the Trustees of the respective States who 
may join the corporation to remove the remains of all the soldiers who 
fell in that battle and have them properly interred in the aforementioned 
grounds, and "the remains of the soldiers of the Confederate army to 
be buried in a part of the grounds separate from those of the LTnion 
army." 

The charter also provides that the grounds shall be devoted in per- 
petuity as a burial place for the dead of said battle, and to remain the 
property of the State of Maryland in fee simple, in trust for all the 
States which may participate in the work by their appropriations. 

For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the charter, 
the Legislature made two appropriations amounting to fifteen thousand 
dollars, which has been paid to the trustees, and it has been expended 
on the work. 

Additional appropriations have from time to time been made by other 
States — namely. New York, Indiana, Connecticut, New Jersey, Minne- 
sota, Maine, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, 
Vermont, West Virginia, and Massachusetts — which States are represented 
by trustees appointed by their respective Governors, and who, with those 
representing Maryland, constitute the corporation. 

The Federal dead to the number of nearly five thousand having been 
removed to the cemetery, Mr. Boullt, of Maryland, at a meeting of the 
trustees held on the 7th of December, 1867, called attention to the fourth 
section of the charter of the Association, which makes it the duty of the 
Trustees to remove the remains of the Confederate .soldiers wdio fell in 
the battle of Antietam, and he requested that some action be taken to 
carry into effect the provisions of the charter in this behalf; upon which 
subject John Jay, Esq., Trustee for New York, read the following com- 
munication from Governor Fenton, which was ordered to be entered 
among the proceedings of the Board : 



32S THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

State of New York, Executive Department, 
Albany, December 3d, 1867. 

Dear Sir: In regard to the payment of the balance of $4,000 still re- 
maining unpaid of the ten thousand dollars appropriated by this State, 
I beg leave to remark that since my note to you of the 23d October, direct- 
ing the Commissioner to pay the money in his discretion, my attention 
has been drawn to the question of the right to have the Confederate 
dead buried in the Antietam Cemetery, and that I regard the matter as 
entitled to the gravest attention. 

The appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made by our Legislature 
in these words : "For a contribution to the fund for a National Cemetery 
at Antietam, to be paid on the certificate of the Governor to the person 
authorized to receive the same." There is nothing in the legislation of this 
State that either restricts or enlarges the purpose of the appropriation. 

It is simply declared to be a contribution to the fund for a National 
Cemetery at Antietam. We are remitted to the original act establishing 
the cemetery passed by the State of Maryland. That act, passed March 
23d, 1865, recites in the preamble that under a former act passed March 
10, 1864, and thereby repealed, the Governor of that State had made pur- 
chase of a suitable lot of ground situated on or near the battlefield of 
Antietam, in Washington County, for the burial and last resting place 
of the remains of the soldiers who fell in that action. 

The second section of the act provides that said lot of ground pur- 
chased by the Governor, as set forth in the foregoing preamble, remain 
in the State of Maryland in fee simple, in trust for all the States that 
•shall participate as hereinafter provided, and said lot of ground shall be 
devoted in perpetuity for the purpose of the burial and final resting 
places of the remains of the soldiers who fell in the battle of Antietam, 
or at other points north of the Potomac River during the invasion of 
Lee in the summer and fall of 1862, or died thereafter in consequence of 
wounds received in said battle, or during said invasion. 

The third section names four Trustees from the State of Maryland, who. 
with one Trustee from each of the other States to be appointed by the 
Governor of their respective States, are created a body politic, under the 
name of the Antietam National Cemetery, to whom shall be conveyed the 
ground referred to. 

The fourth section intrusts the care and management of the ground 
referred to solely to said Trustees, and' it then declares : "And it shall 
be their duty out of the funds that may come into their hands, by State 
appropriation or otherwise, to remove the remains of all the soldiers 
referred to in the second section of this act, and to have them properly 
interred in the aforementioned ground. The remains of the soldiers of 
the Confederate army to br buried in a part of the grounds separate from 
those of the Union army. Also to lay out and inclose said grounds with 
a good, substantial stone wall not less than four feet high, or with an 
iron fence as said Trustees may think best, and to ornament, divide, and 
arrange into suitable plots and burial lots, establish carriage ways, ave- 
nues, and footways, erect buildings and a monument or monuments and 
suitable marks to designate the graves, and generally to do all things in 
their judgment necessary and proper to be done to adapt the ground to 
the uses for which it has been purchased and set apart." 

From this extract it is clear that the use for which the ground was 
purchased and for which power was given to the Trustees, and appro- 
priations were made by the State of Maryland, was as a burial ground for 
all who fell on either side, with the single provision : "That the remains 
of the soldiers of the Confederate army be buried in a part of the grounds 
separate from those of the L'nion army." 



APPENDIX. 329 

It is also clear that the same duty rests upon the Board in respect to 
each of the two classes of fallen soldiers, and that they are instructed to 
appropriate one part of the cemetery grounds for the dead of one army, 
and a separate part for the burial of the dead of the other. 

It appears from the second annual report of the President of the Board 
to the Trustees, dated June 5, 1867, that up to that time the United States 
Burial Corps, under the superintendence of Lieut. John W. Sherer, had 
removed to the cemetery and buried therein 3,580 dead from nineteen 
States (including Maryland and Delaware), and also from the regular 
army, of whom 2,462 had been identified and 1,118 were interred as un- 
known. The total number of burials have since been increased, as I 
learn, to 4,695. I am also advised that no provision has been made by 
the Trustees for a separate plot in the cemetery to be devoted to the 
burial of the Confederate dead, and that no Confederate dead have been 
buried therein to the knowledge of the Board. 

It is true that all the burials have been made by order of the Washing- 
ton authorities, and at the expense of the government ; but it does not 
appear that the Board has drawn the attention of the authorities to the 
fact that the act contemplated the interment of the Confederate as well 
as the Union dead, or that they have invoked the assistance of the govern- 
ment in executing this part of their trust. 

To this it may be replied that by the eighth section of the act it is 
provided that "the expenses incident to the removal of the dead, inclos- 
ing or ornamenting the cemetery, and all the work connected therewith 
and its future maintenance, shall be apportioned among the States con- 
necting themselves with the corporation, according to their population 
as indicated by their representation in the House of Representatives of 
the United States ; and that, inasmuch as the States recently in rebellion 
had not connected themselves with the corporation nor assumed their 
share of the necessary expenses, the Board is under no obligation to 
devote any part of the funds received from the States which furnished 
no soldiers to the Confederate army for the burial of the dead of that 
army. 

A partial answer to this would be that the States of Maryland and 
West Virginia have joined the association and contributed to its funds, 
and that, as many of the Confederates who fell at Antietam and during 
Lee's first invasion came from the States, they (especially Maryland) 
have a just right to demand that a separate part of the cemetery shall 
be appropriated to that class, and that the Board shall take the same 
steps toward accomplishing this part of their trust as they have done 
to fultill that relating to the Union soldiers. 

But looking at the matter not from a narrow, technical point of view 
but from a broad, national standpoint, it seems to me that good faith 
toward the State of Maryland, which originated the scheme, purchased 
the ground, enacted the law, and made two appropriations to carry out 
its object, makes it the clear duty of the Trustees to effectuate as far 
as lies in their power the known intent of the act, and that such a course 
will meet the approval of the people of the loyal States who have be- 
come parties to the corporation and whose dead repose in the cemetery. 

A strong local and individual feeling in the neighborhood of Antietam 
and other parts of Maryland, naturally engendered by the invasion, may 
have created some indifference in regard to the remains of the Confed- 
erate dead, and an indisposition to see them buried side by side with 
those who died in the defense of our nationality. But it is confidently 
believed that no such feeling pervades the breasts of the American 
people or the surviving officers and soldiers of the Union army. 

When we recall the generosity and moderation that marked the con- 
duct of the people, the government, and the army during the war, the 



330 



THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



magnanimity that presided at its close ; when we remember that our cuuvi- 
trymen are now engaged in the work of reconstructing the Union on the 
basis of universal freedom and with an earnest desire to restore to the 
Southern States a prosperity infinitely greater than that which slavery 
and rebellion conspired to destroy, it is impossible to believe that they 
would desire to make an invidious distinction against the moldering 
remains of the Confederate dead, or that they would disapprove of their 
being carefully gathered from the spot where they fell, and laid to rest 
in the National Cemetery on the battlefield of Antietam^ 

Conquerors as we were in that great struggle, our stern disapproval of 
the cause in which they fought need not forbid our admiration of the 
bravery with which they died. They were Americans, misguided indeed 
and misled, but still our countrymen, and we cannot remember them 
now either with enmity or unkindness. 

The hostility of the generous and heroic ends with death ; and, brief as 
our history is, it has furnished an early and striking example. The British 
and Americans who fell at Plattsburg sleep side by side, and a common 
monument on the Plains of Abraham attests the heroism of Wolfe and 
Montcalm. 

To-day nothing perhaps could sooner awaken a national spirit in the 
heart of the South than the thought that representatives of the Northern 
States were gathering the remains of its fallen sons for interment in our 
National Cemetery ; and in future days when our country is one, not 
alone in its boundaries but in spirit and affection, and the recent strug- 
gle is remembered as a war less of sections than of systems, the cemetery 
at Antietam, with its colossal statue of a Union soldier keeping guard 
over the ashes of all who fell in the opposing ranks of McClellan and 
Lee, will have a common interest for descendants of those who died on 
cither side in that sad and memorable Civil War. 

I think, therefore, that the Trustees of the Antietam Cemetery, espe- 
cially in view of the fact that the Southern States have not thus far been 
in a position to contribute to the general fund, should either set apart 
a sufficient plot of ground within the cemetery walls for the burial of the 
Confederate dead, or make suitable arrangements for an enlargement of 
the present inclosure, if necessary, to the attainment of the end proposed. 
I would also recommend that the attention of the War Department be 
called to the subject; and I entertain no doubt that the Secretary will 
cheerfully cooperate in an object of so much interest. 

Very truly yours, R. E. Fenton. 

John Jay, Esq., Special Commissioner, etc.. Nezu York. 

After reading the above letter. Mr. Jay offered the following resolution: 

Resok'cd. That, in pursuance of the provision of the 4th section of the 
Act of Maryland, passed March 23d, 1865, incorporating the Antietam 
National Cemetery, this Board do now designate and set apart for the 
burial of the Confederate dead who fell in the battle of Antietam in the 
first invasion of Lee the southern portion of the grounds not occupied,, 
and separate from the ground devoted to the burial of the Union dead. 

With reference to that part of Governor Fenton's letter which recom- 
mends "that the attention of the War Department be called to the 
subject," Mr. Jay informed the Board that, in company with Colonel 
Selleck, of Wisconsin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, he had 
called that morning on General Grant, Secretary of War, and submitted 
to him the facts of the case; that General Grant, after consulting with 
General Schriven as to the powers of the Department, expressed his cor- 
dial approval of the fulfillment by the Trustees of the provisions of the- 



APPENDIX. 33 T 

Act, and his readiness to afford all the assistance in his power, regretting 
that no act of Congress conferred on the War Department any authority 
in the matter. 

The resolution was then adopted by a vote of / to 2 

The Legislature of Maryland at the following January session appro- 
priated the sum of five thousand dollars to assist in carrying out the 
resolution of the Board. 

At a meeting of the Trustees of the Cemetery held May 6, 1868, the 
superintendent reported that the unoccupied southern portion of the 
grounds was not sufficient for the burial of the Confederate dead, and 
recommended the purchase of additional grounds on the south side of the 
cemetery. The Board resolved to make the purchase, and a committee 
was appointed for that purpose. The Board met the following month 
(June 17) and adopted a resolution postponing all action with refer- 
ence to the removal of the Confederate dead until the next meeting, 
which was held on the i8th of November, when the question was again 
postponed till the annual meeting, held December 9, 1868. At this meet- 
ing, after discussing the question, the Board resolved to continue the 
resolution postponing all action for the burial of the Confederate dead. 

After the Board adjourned, the Trustees for the State of Maryland ad- 
dressed a communication to Governor Swann, calling attention to the 
exposed and neglected condition of the Confederate dead, and informed 
the Governor that many of the trenches and graves were so washed that 
the bones were laid bare, and in some instances the remains had been 
turned over by the plow. They requested that some action be taken to 
protect the dead till they could be removed to a proper place of sepulture. 

In consequence of the extreme illness of Governor Swann and his 
retiring from the gubernatorial chair, the communication was referred 
by him to his successor, Governor Bowie, who at once addressed a note 
to Thomas A. Boullt, Esq., of Hagerstown, Md., one of the Trustees for 
the State in the Antietam Cemetery, and requested him to employ agents 
to go over the battlefield and mound up the trenches and graves, and also 
to make careful notes of their location, and, as far as possible, identify 
the dead. For the accomplishment of the work, the services of Moses 
Poffinberger and Aaron Good, Esquires, citizens of Sharpsburg, and gen- 
tlemen well acquainted with the battlefields, were engaged. They visited 
every trench and grave herein described, and from their field notes this 
descriptive list has been compiled and published by direction of His Ex- 
cellency, Oden Bowie, Governor of Maryland. 

This list, it is believed, embraces, with a few exceptions, all the Confed- 
erate dead buried upon the battlefields of Antietam, South Mountain, and 
the Monocacy. 

Friends of the Confederate dead can obtain copies free of charge by 
addressing Thomas A. Boullt, Hagerstown, Md. 

Four unknown; J. Thompson, Co. H, loth La. (died October 15, 1862) ; 
William Clark, 2d La. ; M. Little, 6th La. ; G. Zeller, Co. E, 6th La. : 
Philip Bitler, Co, B, 14th La.; P. N. Duplices, 8th La.; W. Wagner, Co. 



332 . THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

I, 6th La. ; Augustis Canas, Co. E, 6th La. ; J. P. M., Co. G, 8th La., dis- 
interred by friends. Buried east of J. C. Grove's warehouse, on hill near 
a new house; the headboards are all destroyed, but the graves are in good 
order and can be plainly seen. 

J. P. Hudson, 8th La. ; M. Anker, Co. H, 5th La. ; L. D. Savage, Co E, 
7th La.; J. Garnett, gth La.; P. Oger, 6th La.; Capt. McFarland, Co. 

A, 7th La.; Capt. H. B. Ritchie, Co. C, 6th La. (died September 17, 1862) ; 
Capt. Lewis Heintz, 6th La. ; J. E. Clay, Co. K, 14th La. ; — Charles. 6th 
La. ; one unknown. Buried on right-hand side of road leading to Grove's 
Warehouse, opposite to a large white oak stump, close along the fence, 
first field from Sharpsburg. 

One unknown. Buried in the above field north of the last-named 
place not far from a stump along the hillside ; been plowed over. 

One unknown. Buried in J. C. Grove's orchard, where J. Houser lives ; 
been plowed over. 

One unknown. Buried in a hollow west of J. Houser's house and m 
line with the warehouse, ten feet above a cedar bush. 

Four unknown. Buried in J. C. Grove's yard above the cave and close 
to a peach tree ; had boards, but were destroyed and names forgotten. 

Capt. James E. Martin, 2d Miss. Buried in Grove's yard near an old 
bakc-oven wall, on right-hand side of road to Shepherdstown. 

Six unknown. Buried below J. C. Grove's spring in the fiat and between 
spring and limekiln. 

Capt. G. W. Pollard, 53d Va. ; one unknown. Buried near the line fence 
between Grove and Smith, three hundred yards from the tree at the gate 
in Smith's field, near a large rock. 

S. B. Pleasants, B. P. Carlton, of Athens, Ga. Buried near a large wal- 
nut tree in Smith's field, but disinterred by friends. 

One unknown. Buried in truck patch in front of Capt. D. Smith's housf. 

One unknown. Buried near the gate at Capt. D. Smith's carriage house. 

E. Wood, Co. E, 32d Va. ; E. Malicoat, Co. H, 32d Va. ; C. S Francis, 
15th Va. ; W. B. Wicker, 15th Va. ; J. B. Rate, 15th Va. ; Lieut. James 
Dye, 32d Va. ; W. D. Vinston, 15th Va. ; G. \X. Otey. 15th Va. ; C Wotz. 
15th Va. Buried in Mayer's field in the hollow below Grove's house, toward 
the canal, under a clump of honey locusts ; the graves are in good condi- 
tion and headboards up. 

William Wright, Co. E, 53d Ga. ; Dozier Brown. Co. B, 24th Ga. ; L. 

B. Persh, Co. H, 24th Ga. ; ). B. Colwell, S3d Ga. ; J. A. Keg, Co E, loth 
Ga. ; J. A. Wiley, 15th N. C. ; W. W. Barnes, 15th N C. Buried on west 
side of Mayer's old graveyard ; boards destroyed. 

Lieut. L. J. Bozeman, Co. F, 3d S. C. Buried near fence above the 
company house and among a lot of cedar bushes. 

One unknown. Buried in Mayer's yard near an apple tree. 

Lieut. J. Anderson, 30th Va. ; H. P. Alsop, 30th Va. ; Richard Taylor, 
30th Va. ; T. C. Carmichael, 27th N. C. ; S. J. Smith, 27th N. C. ; J. Fry. 
-;6th N. C. ; Duncan McWilliams, 46th N. C. ; J. N. Denson. 3d Ark ; E. 
L. Hyatt, 3d Ark. ; Wesley J. Hogue, 3d Ark. ; Serg. Behton Keesee, 3d 



APPENDIX. 333 

Ark.: James Hall. 3d Ark.; Jesse D. Head, 3d Ark. Buried in Samuel 
Beeler's barn field' along the fence, running east from the barn, fifteen 
feet from a small locust tree and around a rock quarry ; some unknown 
are also buried here; graves have been plowed over. 

A. Douglas, Co. G, 6th S. C. ; — Rice. Buried in front of Israel Smith's 
house in peach orchard 

R. D. Crawford, Co. D, 6th S. C. ; L. Ria ^let. S. C. : A. F. Byrd, Co 
E, 6th S. C. Buried in the hollow west of Israel Smith's barn, near some 
locust trees in Smith's field. 

H. Hunt, I2th Ga. ; one unknown. Buried in Daniel Pofifenbargsr's field 
northeast of barn on the hill; buried deep; been plowed over. 

B. Rollins, ist Mcintosh Battery; A. W. Spraight, 3d N. C ; W. E. Wil- 
lingham, Co. F, 12th S. C. Vol.; Col. W. T. Millican, 15th Ga. ; Lieut. E. 
N. Fuller, S. C. Vol.: D. P. Herring, ist N. C. (died September 16. 1862) ; 
J. W. Cobb, i2th Ga. ; J. H. Williams. 1st Ga. ; E. R. Martin, 6th La,; 
Samuel Lavin, ist Ga. ; H. H. W., ist Ga. ; W. Stone, 3d N. C. ; J. Slade. 
2d Ga. ; P. B. F. Kimpson, 8th Ga. ; Maj. Smith, 4th Ga. ; V. M. Snyb. 
— Ga. ; J. H., — Ga. Buried in Capt. David Smith's orchard, northeast 
corner ; were buried deep ; the orchard has been plowed and graves plowed 
over, but can all be pointed out ; some of the boards have been preserved 
at the house; some unknown were also buried here. 

Two unknown. Buried twenty feet north of an elm tree in Samuel 
Beeler's field along the line fence between D. Smith and Beeler. 

James T. Sullivan, Hughes's Battery; H. Dyeryer, 4th Tex.; W. J. 
Davis, 4th Tex.; A. C. Robison, 2d Miss.; R. N. Taylor, nth Miss.: J. 
M. William, nth Miss.; H. Turner, nth Miss.; Capt. J. K. Morton, nth 
Miss.; Serg. J. C. Baker, nth Miss.; F. Kessler, nth Miss."; R. Harris, 
60th Ga. ; G. Young, 6oth Ga. ; W. J. leste, 60th Ga. ; R. Hoords, 60th Ga. ; 
J. M. Fuller, Co. H, nth Miss.; J. C. Roher, nth Miss.; F. Ressler, Tenn. 
Buried in Benjamin Grave's young orchard on left-hand side of road to 
Shepherdstown ; names cut on apple trees ; the orchard has been plowed, 
but the graves can be seen. 

J. F. Fields. Co. A, 14th Tenn. Buried in Benjamin Grave's old orchard 
close to an apple tree in the hollow, first tree from house and left-hand 
side of road to Shepherdstown. 

— Walton. 23d Va. ; J. Booker, 23d Va. ; C. W. Keesee, 23d Va. ; Ben- 
jamin Green, 37th Va. ; Serg. W. Walton, Co. I, 23d Va. ; J. H. leste, 
23d Va. ; J. W. Noir, 14th N. C. ; L. C. Colys, 4th N. C. ; W. S. Aspray, 
4th N. C. ; E. W. Johnson, 14th N. C. ; Lieut. D. Platham, 4th N. C. ; T. 
H. Clark, 15th La.; Y. B. Egan, 15th La.; Lieut. J. McBride. 2d La.; L. 
B. Egan, Asst. Serg. 15th La. ; Lieut. D. P. Latham, Co. E, ist N. C. 
Buried in northeast corner of Benjamin Grave's garden on right-hand 
side of Shepherdstown road on inside and outside of fence, beginning at 
an apple tree ; graves have not been disturbed. 

— Duber; — Atkins, 3d Co., W. Battery (killed September 17, 1862). 
Buried at a rock brake in Grave's field west of his house, close to a small 
cherry tree on right of and sixty yards from Shepherdstown road; have 
boards. 



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J. H. Argenbright, 5th Va. ; B. A. Carter, Co. C, 23d Va. ; John E. Black, 
Co. F, 23d Va. ; Ebenezer Cox, 48th N. C. ; William Mann, 48th N. C. ; ' 
Dr. Shadburn, Co E, 9th La. (died September 20, 1862) ; Thomas Coughty, 
48th Ala. ; W. W. Hedrick, 48th Ala. ; Lieut. A. Gordon, 9th La. ; S. W. 
Day. Co. E. — N. C. ; A. J. Igenhower, Co D, 4th Va. ; Corp. J. H. Coy, 
— Ga. Buried on Ben. Graves" farm in first field on right-hand side of 
Shepherdstown road and around a large poplar stump; the farm did be- 
long to J. H. Grove ; the graves have never been plowed over ; are in good 
■condition; some boards still remaining; a number of unknown are buried 
there. 

Serg. John F. Mayes, Battery (killed September 17, 1862) ; one unknown. 
Buried on right of hollow leading from Shepherdstown road to the lock, 
up against the hill by the side of a small locust tree ; Mayes has a board. 

G. W. Weller, — Ga. ; Lieut. Col. Thomas Sloan, 53d Ga. Buried at the 
back end of Elias Grove's orchard, twenty feet east of a double apple tree 
near the line ftnce of Grove and Smith. 

Two unknown. Buried on the outside of stone wall along Rev. Doug- 
las's field, above the well at the lock near an old post. 

Two unknown. Buried on lower side of the abutment of the bridge, 
covtred deep with drift. 

Two unknown. Buried at the abutment of Runnel's dam, but was washed 
away by freshet. 

Two unknown. Buried below Miller's sawmill at lower end of board 
yard. 

C. P., one unknown. Buried below Miller's Basin, between the road 
and canal, at the lower end of basin; board up. 

— Dunlap, Co. C, T2th S. C. ; — Roach, Co. H, 12th S. C. Buried ui 
northeast corner of Morgan Miller's orchard. 

One unknown. Buried on towpath opposite Miller's sawmill under a 
sjxamore tree. 

H. D. B. ; John Allen, 48th Va. ; Lieut. John Hurnes, 37th Va. ; Charles 
Booker, 32d Va. ; Lieut. M. V. B. Swann, 2d La. ; A. J. Smith, 53d N. C. ; 
Kertz Harty, 14th N. C. ; K. Thiaton, 3d N. C. ; J. Ascott. 7th N. C ; Paul 
Sanford, 7th N. C. ; R. B. Tall, -|th Tex.; — Gones, 13th Miss.; C. D. 
Gardner, 13th Miss. ; A. W. Gower, 24tb Ga. ; Lieut. H. B. Brantlay, 28th 
Ga ; J. C. Wright, 48th Ga. Buried along the northern edge of Stephen 
Grove's woods ; all had boards ; some still have boards. 

J. P. Snipes, 15th Ala. ; R. Hadmans, 4th Ala ; Lieut D. A. King, 4th 
Ala. ; R. Sigmon, 46th N. C. ; Lieut. H. T. Eason, 13th Miss. Buried in 
Mrs. Lucker's second field south of barn on west side of a large rock 
brake and near a locust tree and an elm tree. 

W. R. Lindsey, 3d S. C. : J. C. Morgan, 3d S. C. ; R. A. Wagner, i8th 
Miss. ; R. B. Davis, 13th Miss. ; W. O. Cambpell, i8th Miss. ; C. H. Clark, 
Co. D, i8th Miss.; Thomas Wells, Co. F, 21st Miss. Buried below Mayer's 
barn on flat at side of branch; boards destroyed; graves exposed to stock; 
no fence. 

James Shinp, 3d N. C Buried in Daniel Pofifenbarger's out lot along 



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335 



the line fence, between Poffenbp.rger and Marker, six feet above a forked 
sassafras. 

J. S. Hudson. 15th Ga. Buried in southwest corner of Stephen P. 
Grove's orchard, four panels from corner ; name cut on fence. 

E. Conner, Co. G, iStli V'a. ; five unknown. Buried in Francis Miller's 
orchard, next to his wagon shed, close to an apple tree ; stump for a stone. 

Two unknown. Buried in Henry Blackford's wood, near a sink hole. 

Two unknown. Buried in the road near the southwest corner of Mayer's 
barn. 

One unknown. Buried in Henry Blackford's orchard, second row and 
under the third tree from southeast corner. 

One lieutenant, unknown. Buried above a large rock nearly opposite 
out lot lane, along hillside, first field of H. Blackford's from forge road. 

One unknown. Buried thirty yards from the last-named rock in same 
field and tow^ard the lane 

E. L. Frazier. 12th S C. ; si.K unknown. Buried in H, Blackford's first 
field, northeast corner at forks of the roads. 

Three trenches of supposed thirty unknown. Buried in southeast cor- 
ner of Mrs. Lucker's barn field; bones exposed. 

One unknown. Buried in the hollow in H. Blackford's first field from 
forge road, twenty-two steps from a large rock in the hollow toward the 
forge road. 

One unknown. Buried in D. Reel's field, back of the Marker field, 
seventy-six yards from the gate toward S. Reel's shop. 

A. J Koontz. 48th N. C. ; J. D. Cockran, 17th Miss.; G. F. Shuford, 
17th Miss.: E. B. H., 17th Miss.; J. W. Wright. 17th Miss.; J. M. B., i7tn 
Miss.: H. H. Wood, Co. A, 17th Miss.; J. G. W^, 17th Miss.; J. S. H., 
17th ]\[iss. ; C. E. Pow.e, 13th Miss. Buried along the south side of Mrs. 
Lucker's barn field, along division fence near a large locust tree ; stone on 
the graves; some boards still here. 

Jonathan Sessions, 13th Miss.; W. L. West, 13th Miss.; E. R. Kilpat- 
rick. 1,3th Miss ; M. Marcon, 48th Miss. Buried along the south side of 
]\[rs. Lucker's barn field, along division fence near a large locust tree; 
stone on the graves ; some boards still here. 

J. :\rcDougle, Co. H, 1.2th :\Iiss. : L. Butler. Co. D, 12th Miss. Buried 
in David Reel's field, third one from house, southwest corner, eighteen 
feet from and in front of a rock brake west of Hagerstown Pike. 

Five unknown Buried in David Reel's field along the east side of field; 
bones exposed; some were scattered. 

One unknown. Buried in Mrs. Lucker's barn field opposite the garden 
near the road. 

Fifteen unknown Buried in a trench in S. Reel's gold mine field, 
twenty-three steps south of a hickory and near the line fence between Reel 
and Piper. 

One unknown. Buried in second field west of J. Nicodemus's well, on 
south side of lane and along the western division fence and thirty panels 
from corner. 



336 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

One unknown. Buried in S. Reel's gold' mine field, seventy-five .yards 
north of southwest corner of field, close to fence; bones exposed. 

Col. Strong; ten unknown, — La. Buried in the hollow south of Dun- 
kard Church, seventy-five steps and ten feet east of a walnut stump toward 
pike. 

R. VV. Tompkins. Buried in southwest corner of Colonel Miller's 
woods ; name cut on tree ; has been disinterred. 

Lieut. J. M. Roberts, Co. C, 21st Miss.; W. Blalock, Co. L 21st Miss.; 
J. C. Pruitt, 2ist Miss.; Lieut. J. O. Kreigner, 21st Miss.; N. M. Hugney, 
2d S. C. ; F. B. V. Johnson, 2d S. C. ; G. Halley, 8th La. Buried in Colonel 
Miller's woods west of church along the line fence between Miller and 
Mrs. Lucker on flat under a large walnut tree; some boards are still here; 
also a number on unknown. 

One unknown, Jackson's Brigade. Buried in Mrs. Lucker's orchard, 
near northeast corner. 

Lieut. S. Robinson, 2d S. C. ; Serg. J. S. Boyd. 2d S. C. (been disin- 
terred by friends) ; L. C. Green, Co. A, 8th Ga. ; J. L. Denson, Co. K, 3d 
Ark ; W. H. Ward, loth Ga. ; R. T. Johnson, loth Ga. ; Maj. Mcintosh, 
loth Ga. (disinterred by friends); S. C. Greer. 8th Ga. ; Corp. Suther- 
land, loth Ga. ; C. O. Morris, loth Ga. ; J. T. Binion. loth Ga. : E. B. 
Coin, 3d S. C; S J. Craine, 3d S. C. : William Franklin, 3d S. C. ; M. 
J. Shuber. Co. L 3d S. C. ; Serg. A. McNeedy, 3d S. C. ; Jesse Gary, 3^ 
S. C; Lieut. Abernathy. 3d S. C. ; S. T. McCoy. Co. E, 3d S. C. ; Corp. 
J. R. Harris, 3d S. C. ; H. G. G. Gallman, 3d S. C. Buried around the 
rock brake southwest of Mrs. Lucker's barn ; in the barn field the brake 
is covered with locust and other trees. Some boards are here. 

P. W. Teter. 32d Va. ; T. H. Marrow, 32d'Va. ; Corp. F. Lunder. 32d 
Va.; H. Grove, 5th Va. ; G. M. Hanger. 27th Va. ; D. Coughlin, 27th Va. ; 
Reuben Rodway. 15th La.; T. H. Phifer. 2d La.; J. S Kearney. 2d La.; 
Corp. T. Skinner. Co. K, 32d Va. ; W. A. Snead. 15th Va. ; Reuben Badens, 
5th La. Buried around' first rock brake west of Mrs. Lucker's barn and 
in the barn field ; some boards are still standing. 

R. F Davis. 4th Ala. ; S. Sutton, 6th Ga. ; R. H. Campbell, 4th Ga, ; G. 

F. Davis, — Ga. ; Beth Harford. 27th Ga. : W. D. Riskenbecken ; W. D. 
Norwood. 3d Va ; J. H. Marting, 42d S. C ; Lieut. E. F. Dobson, 42d S. 
C Buried in George Line's orchard : some boards are still here ; the 
graves have not been disturbed. 

B. Matheny, lOth Ga. ; J. Riley, Toth (Sa. ; E. N. Gunn, lo'h Ga. : John 
Hanks, loth Ga. ; Brocks Mathering. loth Ga. ; James M. Lowe, loth Ga. ; 

G. W. C. Allen, loth Ga. ; J. Q. H. Mitchell. loth Ga. ; R. B. Hightower, 
loth Ga. ; J. H. Q. Campbell, Co. E, loth Ga. ; J. C. Butler, loth Ga. Buried 
in G. Burgan's field along the line fence between Burgan and Mrs. Lucker 
and in a direct line with the fence back of Burgan's orchard : some boards 
still remain; also some unknown board. 

John Stokes. 49th Va ; W. A. Renoe. 49th Va. ; George Able. 49th Va. ; 
J. G. Rod, 49th Va. ; D. N. Johnson. 44th Va. : W. J. Scoggins. 9th La. ; 
Lieut. S. T. Robinson, 9th La. ; W. O. Price, 9th La. ; E B. Legget, 9th 



APPENDIX. 337 

La.; B. Old. Co. H, 2d La. (killed September 17, 1862); Thomas Chit- 
wood, 42 Va. Buried in northeast corner of Mrs. Lucker's house field, 
commencing at an old road and running along the southern edge of woods ; 
some boards still here. 

L. G. Burditt, I3lh Ala. ; Lieut. W. E. Cooke, 8th La. ; — Fontenet, — 
La.; W. B. Ayes, ist N. C. ; C. T. Bass, ist N. C ; J. H. Thompson, ist 
N. C. : W. H. Lane. 3d N. C. ; F. L. Pollet, 6th N. C. ; P. N. Oliphant, 3d 
N. C. ; Elias Sotton, 3d N. C. ; — Hatchet, Co. D, ist N. C. ; C. Branch, 
Co. D, 5th N. C. ; Ezra Towle. loth Miss. ; H. Hickman, 2d Miss ; Capt. 
J. C. Beeks, 27th Ga. ; John L. Slaughter, 6th Ga. ; Benjamin C. Laprabe, 
28th Ga. ; W. Bailey, 6ist Ga. ; W. Bruster, 23d Ga. ; — Late, Co. H, 23d 
Ga. ; M. Coleman, 38th Ga. ; — Jones, 28th Ga. ; John Wright. 28th Ga. ; G. 
Summer, 28th Ga. ; J. Royal, 6th Ga. ; — Sweet; J. Phelps, ist Tex.; J. 
Boon, 1st Tex. ; A. F. Wolf, 5th Tex. Buried west of George Line's house 
in his new ground alongside of an old white oak tree near his pond and 
north of the road leading to his house ; the ground is low and wet and has 
been plowed ; graves pretty much exposed. 

One unknown. Buried in Mrs. Middlekauff's orchard. 

One unknown. Buried in John Poffenbarger's field east of house, twenty 
steps north of hogpen. 

James F. Maxcey. Co. C, 27th Ga. (died December 12, 1862) ; Joseph 
P. Pratt, Co. D. 12th Ga. (died October 11, 1862); one unknown (died 
October 8, 1862). Buried in the Smoketown Hospital graveyard; boards 
still here and graves have not been disturbed. 

One unknown. Buried in northeast corner of garden belonging to the 
tenant house of S. Poffenbarger's farm. 

— Stogner, 49th N. C. ; — Simpson, 49th N. C. ; L. M. N., 49th N. C. 
Buried in Colonel Miller's woods in front of Mrs. Lucker's house, ten 
feet from a hickory tree, along the fence and ten feet from a stump. 

Three unknown. Buried in Colonel Miller's woods, third hollow and 
west side of pike, twenty steps from D. R. Miller's fence and close to a 
walnut stump with three notches cut in. 

One unknown. Buried on top of a little hill on south side of lane and 
west of J. Nicodemus's well. 

W. H. Talbot, 2d Miss.; three unknown Buried in Jonathan Poffen- 
barger's orchard along the west side close to the fence and near a small 
cherry tree. 

Four unknown. Buried in J. Nicodemus's new ground. 

Two unknown. Buried in Mrs. Lucker's wood. 

J. A. J. Tally, isth Va. ; J. A. Talley, isth Va ; G. W. Brook, isth Va. ; 
W. E. Rean, isth Va. ; J. M. Leak, 15th Va. : J. G. Hagans, 53d Ga. ; W. 
N. Shrouhart, 53d Ga. ; S. Ocrue, S3d Ga. Buried in Mrs. Lucker's field 
near an old well ; have been plowed over. 

Capt. T. H. Wynne, 32d Ga. ; John Campbell. loth Ga. ; John Mitchell, 
loth Ga ; G. W. Callet, loth Ga. ; Lieut. D. J. Downing, 2d N. C. ; L. W. 
Gale. loth Ga ; James Lowe. loth Ga. Buried in a stone pile six feft 
fro'.n locust tree near George Burgan's well. 

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338 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

One unknown. Buried in southwest corner of George Burgan's orchard, 
two panels east of corner. 

One unknown. Buried near Air. Murdock's spring, opposite Money 
Herr's tavern stand. 

Three unknown. Buried along the edge of E. Hoffman's woods at 
Smoketown, fifty yards from house. 

Capt. J. C. Beeks, 27th Ga. ; J. S. Ervin, 21st Miss. ; Capt Cooke, 20th 
Miss. Buried in Euromus Hoffman's field south of barn along the hill- 
side, twenty-three steps east of a large walnut tree. 

J. R. Cody,i8th Ga. ; N. B. Parker, 27th N. C.; Capt. John Howard, 
2d N. C; Lieut. R. L. Noble, 27th N. C. Buried in Dr. Smith's field, 
northwest of house in the hollow between two gullies, fifty yards south of 
a walnut tree ; a number of unknown were also buried here, and some have 
been washed out. 

Ihree urJcnown. Buried east of H. Neikirk's barn on opposite hill and 
twenty feet west of a hickory stump. 

Two unknown. Buried in D. R. Miller's orchard back of the garden, 
six steps from northeast corner of garden. 

Two trenches of supposed forty-seven unknown. Buried in northwest 
corner of Michael Miller's meadow, four feet from branch and five feel 
from board fence. 

Henry Perring, 23d Va. ; Beneft Laurence, 30th N. C. ; Benjamin A 
Butler, 30th N. C. ; 'William Cox, 7th S. C. ; G J. Galaway, 15th Ala.; 
Lieut. D. H. Hallman, 23d Ga. ; Capt. W. F. Plane, 6th Ga. (disinterred). 
Buried on eastern side of branch in Samuel Poffenbarger's meadow and 
along the line fence between Poffenbarger and Miller. 

J. B. Stegali, 23d Ga. Buried in D. R. Miller's field back of orchard 
:;long the woods. 

Eighteen trenches supposed to contain two hundred and ninety unknown; 
Col. Colwell, 27th Ga. (disinterred); Maj. Tracey, 27th Ga. ; in east end 
of trench containing one hundred and fifty. Buried in D. R. Miller's 
fifty-acre field east side of pike ; the trenches can all be seen, although the 
field has been plowed; buried shallow; bones exposed in places; trappings, 
etc., can be seen. 

Nine trenches supposed to contain two hundred and twenty-five un- 
known. Buried in D. R. Miller's field east of pike and bordering on 
Smoketown road; buried shallow; exposed 

Eight trenches supposed to contain three hundred and five unknown. 
Buried in D. R. Miller's field west of pike and joining the woods; bones 
exposed. 

Two trenches supposed to contain thirty unknown. Buried in north- 
west corner of Samuel Mummas's field at the junction of Smoketown road 
and pike. 

Four unknown. Buried seventy- yards north of walnut tree in S. Mum- 
mas's graveyard field. 

Three trenches supposed to contain about thirty unknown. Buried near 
the graveyard in Samuel Mummas's field ; exposed. 



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339 



Twelve unknown. Buried in Samuel Mummas's first field south of 
n:eadow. 

One unknown. Buried in lower corner of William Rulett's meadow. 

One unknown. Buried in William Rulett's orchard close to his house. 

Five trenches supposed to contain two hundred and fifty unknown; Capt. 
Whatley, of Jacksonville, Ala., in one end of trench. Buried in the first 
field of William Rulett's along Bloody Lane. 

Twenty unknown. Buried in Samuel Mummas's field joining Rulett's 
■ lane, southeast corner twenty steps from rock brake. 

Twenty unknown. Buried in Samuel Mummas's hear hole field. 

Three trenches supposed to contain eighteen unknown. Buried in S. D 
Pipers field east of his orchard in hollow ; bones exposed. 

Four trenches supposed to contain twenty-five unknown. Buried in S. 
D. Piper's eighteen-acre field joining Bloody Lane. 

Two unknown. Buried in S. D. Piper's field, bought of Squire Miller. 

Twenty unknown in one trench. Buried in S. D. Piper's field west of 
orchard in the flat near forks of gullies. 

Two unknown. Buried in S. D. Pipcr'.s field opposite his corncrib, close 
along the lane fence. 

Stephen Credit, — Ga. ; two unknov.n. Buried in Squire Miller's or- 
chard in town. 

N, Y. N., loth Ala. Buried in Samuel Reel's field north of Michael's 
orchard, fifteen steps from l)ars. 

John B. Smith, 2d Miss.; one unknown. Buried in Samuel Reel's or- 
chard. 

Seventeen unknown. Buried in Samuel Reel's twenty-acre field twenty 
yards from west fence and one hundred yards from back corner. 

Two unknown. Buried in Moses Cox's field northeast of his black- 
smith shop. 

One unknown. Buried in S. Reel's meadow along the line fence between 
David and Samuel Reel's and near a locust stump. 

Two unknown. Buried in Colonel Miller's field opposite S. Reel's lane, 
six steps northwest of some locust trees. 

G. W. Corbin, 13th Miss Buried in Colonel Miller's first field north of 
Stine's house, close to Mercerville road, six feet from a panel of fence ; 
notches cut in the rail. 

One unknown. Buried in southeast corner of Mrs. Lucker's field on 
the Mercerville road, twenty steps from locust tree ; bones exposed. 

One unknown. Buried in George Burgan's field on the hill close along 
the Mercerville road ; stone up at head and foot. 

James Wright, Co. G, 7th S. C. ; — Bishops, 2d Fla. ; — Jenkins, 3d 
N. C; — Sellus, 2d N. C. ; Lieut. J. R Drake, 5th Tex.; J. R. Baker, 15th 
Va. ; F. M. Foster, loth Ga. ; W. O. Brien, i6th Ga. ; C. Simms, 15th Miss.; 
J. W. Shettles, 2d Miss.; J. R. Harper, 14th N. C. ; J. Spradling, 13th Ala.; 
J. Strider, 14th N. C. ; C. A. Foult. 48th N. C. : T. S. Gardner. Co. H, 8th 
La.; D. M. JoneS, Co. F. i6th Miss.; Serg Henry, Co. H, 2d Miss.; W. 
R. Bryant, — Miss.; C. H. Mclntyre. 13th Va. ; J. Sloan, loth La.; W. 



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THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



S. Brazeall. 7th Tex.; C. W. Coleman, 30th N. C. ; H. F. Collins, 24th 
Ga.; Capt. J. E. Buckley. Co. B, i6th Miss.; J. Williams, 6th Ga. ; S. 
Reading, 5tli Ga. ; three unknown. Buried in Rev. J. J Adams's town lot 
back of the M. E. graveyard. 

J. W. Weaver, Co. I. T2th Ala. Buried in A. Michael's orchard under 
fourth tree and sixth row from northeast corner and eastern side ; name 
cut on tree. 

J. L. M., 28th Va ; J. Stubbs, 23d S. C. ; J. M. Farris, 17th S. C. ; three 
unknown. Buried in Lutheran graveyard in Sharpsburg. 

— Wood. Buried in German Reformed graveyard in Sharpsburg. 

Two unknown. Buried in southern end and corner of John High- 
barger's lot along the forge road. 

G. W. Judd, Tst Co. Wash. Art.; one unknown. Buried in Ben Miller's 
orchard, second pear tree from spring house south. 

Two unknown Buried in Reel's woods on right of the gate leading to 
S. L Piper's under a walnut tree. 

One unknown ; Lieut. C. C. Binn, 53d Ga. Buried in Colonel Miller's 
woods on left of road to Lafayette ; cross cut on tree. 

Capt. J. M. Bourn, 4th Va. ; T. J. Wilson, 4th Va. ; J. Bryson, 7th Va ; 
four unknown. Buried in H. Reel's field west of his orchard along a stone 
wall, thirty steps above the gate. 

Lieut. J. G. Flemming, 49th N. C. Buried in northeast corner of H. 
Reel's orchard between second and third tree from corner along the back 
end. 

Two unknown. Buried in southwest corner of Lafayette Miller's woods, 
west of path and south of hickory tree. 

. Three unknown. Buried' in Daniel Poffenbarger's town lot, where he 
lives. 

W. J. Johnson, 6th La. Buried in D. Rohrback's lot, south of John 
Grice's lot. close along the for.ge road and under first tree from gate. 

Two unknown. Buried in southwest corner of John Kretzer's lot back 
of his orchard 

Twenty-eight unknown. Buried in Adam ^Nlicheal's field east and south 
of his pond field. 

INI. M. B., nth Va. ; J. W. Reed, nth Va. ; S. A. Lucas, nth Va. ; James 
Phelan, T7th Va. ; M. O. Anderson, 7th Va. Buried in Ben Miller's field 
joining and east of John Highbarger's lot, twenty steps from southeast 
corner toward and near a small edge of rocks. 

Serg. Strobuck, N. 133 N. Buried in northeast corner of Ben INIiller's 
field south of orchard. 

S. Millsi, R. 89 N ; H. Rimple, H. 108 N. ; L. M. ; Corp. Walker, 108 
N. Buried in Ben Miller's field and along the line fence and stone wall 
between Miller and Sherrick and north of a locust stump. 

Three unknown. Buried west of Benjamin Miller's house, between 
wood pile and fence. 

One unknown. Buried on outside and east of Hiatt's Stable, two panels 
of fence. 



APPENDIX. 341 

Two unknown. Buried in Airs. Rohrback's orchard field. 

T. S. C, two unknown. Buried in Mrs. Rohrback's field along the line 
fence between Mrs. Rohrback and Suavely, west of a leaning elm and 
between a stone wall division fence. 

One colonel of a Georgia regiment. Buried east of John Benner's barn 
and thirty steps of a beech tree along an old fence. 

Five unknown. Buried in John Benner's stone quarry. 

Two unknown. Buried in John Otto's field south of Benner's orchard 
along the hillside. 

One unknown. Buried in gully in northeast corner of Sherrick's little 
field joining Benner's orchard ; probably washed away. 

Two unknown. Buried at the east end of Sherrick's barn at the yard 
fence. 

Three unknown. Buried in Samuel Magraw's field joining the A. N. 
Cemetery 

Three unknown. Buried in A. N. Cemetery, and were removed by un- 
known persons. 

One unknown. Buried in Mrs. Kennedy's yard near the pump and 
between an apricot and plum tree. 

Twenty unknown. Buried on Maryland Heights, twenty yards north 
of fort. 

One unknown. Buried south of INIrs. Vandusen's house near where 
the board and rail go in. 

Two unknown. Buried on Dr. Butler's farm in the swamp. 

Serg. John Dolan, Co. F, 26th Ga. Buried in T. Bryns's orchard ; 
flowers planted on the grave 

L. McElwer. Yorkville, S. C. : H. Johnson. Co. K. 6th S. C. ; W. E. 
Little, Co. D, P. S. S. ; M. C. Co. H, P. S. S. ; Newton Petty, Co. M. 
P. S. S.; George Fink, Co. H, P. S. S. ; J. Binks. Co. H, 6th S C. : C. 
Golickly, Co. K, 5th S. C. : R. Gritten, Co. F. 6th S. C. : A TiUacum. Co. 
A, 5th S. C. ; one unknown. Buried in Mrs. Kennedy's little orchard op- 
posite her house ; the graves are shallow and have never been plowed over. 

Three unknown. Buried in Michael Tenant's orchard. 

One unknown. Buried along the road from William Wade's barn to 
the mountain near a grave, inclosed by a fence. 

One unknown. Buried in northeast corner of William Crampton's 
house field, third cedar from corner, along Harper's Ferry road ; stone up. 
J. M. White, 1st Ga. ; W. L. A., ist Ga. Buried in William Wilson's woods 
at the back end and south .side of a branch near the line fence between 
Wilson and Byrns ; names cut on a chestnut tree ; graven covered with 
stone. 

D. B. T., 2d Va. Buried in western side of Grove's graveyard near a 
peach tree. 

Twelve unknown. Buried in the field back of Mr. Staley's barn in the 
hollow. 

One unknown. Buried in northwest corner of Anderson's walnut tree 
field, twenty steps from corner, near Brownsville schoolhouse. 



34^ 



THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 



Five unknown. Buried in J. J. :\ [core's graveyard on the road to 
Weverton. 

James Lewis, — Va. Buriid in Barton Butler's lield in corner joining 
Burns's meadow. 

Twelve unknown. Buried in T. Crampton's field, twelve steps south 
of bars and at the mouth of Remsburg's lane along the woods. 

James M. Birdsong. Buried in T. Crampton's field opposite a walnut 
stump in the lane leading to his liouse. 

One unknown. Buried at the graveyard at Oak Grove Schoolhouse 
below Rohrersville. 

Elijah Lacey, Co. H, 2d Ga. ; J. F. Gartaw, Co. A, 8th La.; G. W. Gaus- 
nell, Co. E, 5th La.; R. E. Smith, Co. E. Sth La.; four unknown. Buried 
in hospital graveyard at Russer Spring ; still have boards up. 

Lieut Col. E. S. James, — N. C. ; forty-seven unknown. Buried in 
Wise's lot on east side of house and lot on top of South Mountain. 

Twenty-three unknown.. Buried in Wise's lot on west side of house and 
stable on top of South Mountain. 

(3ne unknown. Buried one hundred yards west of the mountain road 
and a large white oak south of Wise's. 

Two unknown. Buried in the woods south of Beekly's field on east side 
of mountain road and three-quarters of a mile south of Wise's house; 
bones exposed. 

Three unknown. Buried in Smith's field opposite the hotel on South 
Mountain, ten steps from bars. 

Three unknown. Buried on Alagill's farm at falling waters. 

J. B. Walker, Co. A. Phil. La.; J. W. Bryant, 5th Ga. ; Lieut. J. F. 
Bryant, 6th Ala. ; L. Parker, 23d Ga. ; C. M. Fontenberry, 26th Ala. ; O. 
Johns, 5th Ala. ; Thomas Gee, 5th Ala. ; M. Furgison, 23d Ga. ; T. Nott, 
23d Ga. ; J. N. Philips, 28th Ga. ; T. J. Ward, 6th Ala. ; Lieut. A. A. Scott, 
6th Ala.; H. L Tucker. 26th Ala.; C. H. Moore, 26th Ala.; C. M. Smith, 
26th Ala.; M. D. Jackson, 5th Ala.; G. B. Wright, sth Ala.; J. McBee, 
23d Ga. ; Thomas McElwie, 23d Ga. ; J. Wetherby, 23d Ga. ; T. E. Blich- 
ington. 28th Ga ; W. Thomas, 23d Ga. ; J. B. Lacy, 6th Ala. ; A. W. 
Maxell, 6th Ala.; W. D. Jackson, 5th Ah.; four unknown. Buried in 
Mrs. Hofifman's barn field near Boonsboro, one hundred and fifty yards 
northwest of the barn. 

Capt. Litchfield, Sth S. C. Buried in Dr. E. Butler's graveyard. 

Two unknown. Buried in Russell's graveyard field along the fence 
against the mountain. 

One unknown, • — Fla. Buried in the woods west of Phil Pry's house 
near a white oak tree and along the orchard fence 

One unknown. Buried in Christian Keedy's field opposite Mr. Made's 
shop. 

One unknown. Buried in south side of the old Middletown road, mid- 
way between two stumps and directly opposite to William Lampert's house 
at foot of South Mountain. 

F"iftv-eight unknown. Buried in Wise's well on South Mountain. 



APPENDIX. 343 

Seven unknown. Buried on Mr. Dellinger's farm at falling waters. , 

Six unknown. Buried on Mr. William's farm, south of Williamsport 
on east side of Sharpsburg road near a walnut and locust tree close along 
the road. 

John Shuffler, — N. C. ; two unknown. Buried on spring field farm near 
Williamsport. 

One unknown. Buried on Mr. Charlton's farm below Williamsport. 

Three unknown. Buried in stone quarry in Miller's lot in Williamsport. 

Eleven unknown. Buried outside of public graveyard at Williamsport: 

W. W. Baily, Co. D, ist Va. ; eight unknown. Buried in first woods 
below Benevola, three-quarters of a mile east of pike and near the mouth 
of a lane. 

J. T. Hubble, Q. M., 5th Va. ; J. R. Latum, — N. C. ; Z. P. Henry, Co. 
D, 5th Tex. ; — Boan, — N. C. ; Col. J. E. Ayer, S. T., July 3, 1863, 6th 
N. C. ; — Coxanson, — N. C. ; J. W. Driskill, Co. G, 6th Ala. (killed July 
6, 1863) ; J. R. Barnes, Co. C, 43d N. C. ; W. Gardner, Co. A, 23d N. C. ; 
J. Wiles, — N. C. ; forty-three unknown. Buried in the public graveyard 
at Williamsport. 

Samuel Maxwell, — S. C. ; one unknown. Buried south of Mr. Embrey's 
warehouse in a niche of the bank ; stone up. 

Edward J. Jewell, — La. (tombstone) ; Capt. J. P. Welsh, Co. B, 27th 
Va. ; three unknown. Buried in Catholic burial ground at Williamsport. 

S. P. Moore, 3d Ark. ; — Walker, S. C. Art. ; twelve unknown. Buried 
in John Hogne's town lot, nearly opposite the Presbyterian Church in 
Williamsport. 

One unknown. Buried at the mouth of lane in Mr. Finley's woods, 
thirty feet from lane along stone wall on south side of pike from Wil- 
liamsport to Hagerstown. 

One unknown doctor from Virginia. Buried in front of Suman's house, 
on pike from Williamsport to Hagerstown. 

One unknown. Buried along the fence west of Moler's orchard on pike 
from Williamsport to Hagerstown. 

One unknown. Buried fifty yards west of tollgate on pike from Wil- 
liamsport to Hagerstown. 

One unknown. Buried in Cost's field at locust tree, northeast of bone 
mill at Hagerstown. 

Col S. P. Lumpkin, 44th Ga. (died September 12, 1863). Buried in 
Presbyterian graveyard at Hagerstown ; has tombstone. 

Three unknown. Buried in Episcopal graveyard at Hagerstown. 

— Warfield. Buried in graveyard at St. Paul's Church on pike from 
Hagerstown to Clearspring. 

Five unknown. Buried in Lutheran graveyard at Funkstown. 

— Riley. Buried on Straub's farm, one mile south of Hagerstown. 
W\ L. Calhoun, Co. L Sth Ala.; George Williams, — N. C. Buried in 

Dunkard graveyard at Funkstown. 

One unknown. Buried on Eakle and Newcomer's farm on Sharpsburg 
road near Funkstown. 



344 1HE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

One unknown. Buried on Archy McCoy's farm b?low Funkstown. 

One unknown. Buried in Thomas Watt's wood near Mr. Stover's. 

One unknown. Buried on John W. Stover's farm near the tollgate on 
Sharpsburg and Hagerstown Pike. 

Capt. Mitchell, ■ — Ga. ; Serg. Brooks, — Ga. ; fifteen unknown. Buried 
on Mr. Stover's farm, one mile southeast of Funkstown. 

Two unknown. Buried along the fence back of Mr. Stockslager's garden. 

One unknown. Buried in Samuel Williams's field near a locust tree and 
back of Stockslager's farm. 

One unknown. Buried one-quarter of a mile west of Boonsboro and 
Hagerstown Pike along the line fence between Shindle and Hunter, be- 
tween two locust trees. 

One unknown. Buried in northwest corner of Mr. Hildebrand's woods 
near a hickory ; bones exposed. 

J. S. Christian, 28th Va. ; J. T. Wise, 23d S. C. ; — Reynolds. 28th Va. 
(died October 27, 1862); J. O. Kounce, 2d Va. ; Professor Phinx; 
James Cole, Co. D, 7th Va. (in Giles Co., Va.) ; S. S Keenan, Co. F, 23d 
Ga. ; Serg. T. M. Garland, 50th Ga. ; J. J. Carver, Co. F, 50th Ga. ; E. F. 
Johnson; — McClendon, Co. I, 57th Ga. ; Thomas Lowell, 8th Fla. ; C. 
L. Atkins, Co. G, 7th Va. ; J. H. Hedrick; Winfield Ivey, 51st Ga. ; W. S. 
Hill, — S. C. Buried at the Disciple church in Boonsboro. 

One unknown. Buried along the branch at edge of Downey's wood at 
falling waters. 

Three unknown. Buried in Snyder's lane at falling waters. 

Lieut. A. Christian, W. Va. ; W. H. Naun, Co. B, 20th N. C ; E. H. 
Counts, Co. I, 14th N. C. ; F. R. Gregory, — Miss.; Lieut. J. Elliott, ist 
N. C. (died July 28, 1863) ; J. W. Wilson, 5th N. C. (died July 28, 1863) ; 
W. H. Dunn, loth Ala.; Franklin Cunningham, 3d W. Va. ; T. B. Giaco, 
19th Miss.; H. Watkins, — Va., Ashby's Cavalry; F. M. Canoway, Co. H, 
13th Ala.; H. Rowell, Co. E, 4th Ala ; Q. D. Gray, 37th Va. ; A. B. 
Nevlin, 13th Va ; I. I. Edwards, 55th N. C. ; Serg. John McDowell, S5th 
N. C. ; John Reice, 5th Va. ; S. V. York, Co. A, 2d N. C. ; A. M. Plagason, 
Co. H, 6th N. C; R. L Little, Co. E, 13th N. C. ; J. D. Smith, — Tenn ; 
Lieut. J. B. O'Neale, Co. F. 3d S. C. ; Alexander Cune, Co. L, 50th Va. ; 
sixteen unknown. Buried in almshouse lot at Hagerstown; some boards 
■still here. 

Two unknown. Buried south of Beekley's barn alongside of pike. 

Four unknown. Buried on Mr. Doub's farm on pike above Boonsboro. 

One unknown. Buried on George Snavely's farm in orchard at tenant 
house. 

One unknown. Buried along the pike above Boonsboro, opposite a 
clump of thickets on Mr. Shiffler's farm. 



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rches ; average distance between sections from headboard to headboard, thirteen feet ten inches. 

1 between "1656" and "1657" do not occur as indicated in the plot, but should be added in the 
; there is no such grave. Between "1612" and "1613" in 34th section "1571" has been omitted. 



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section south of the last grave, "1707," space for one grave to he allowed between "i! 



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appendix. 345 

ca:mp chase cemetery. 

Confederate Dead Buried at "Camp Chase," Four Miles West of 
Columbus, Ohio. 

No. of Grave. 

1977. Abbott, Joseph, Co. B, 26th Va. Sharpshooters, died May 16, '65. 
2032. Abie, Simeon, 66th Ga. Inf., died January 7, "65. 

256. Adams, B., Texas Legion, died September 20, '64. 

785. Adams, J. R., Co. D, 57th Va. Inf., died January 16, '65. 
1230. Adams, O. D., Co. A, 8th Ga. Inf., died February 14. '65. 

688. Adams, WilHam, Co. H, 6th Ky. Inf., died December 31, '64. 
1556. Adamson, James, Co. E, 30th Ga. Inf., died March 5, '65. 
1830. Aday, Benton, Co. E, 5th Ala. Cav., died April 8, '65. 

63. Adkins, H. A., Co. E, nth Va. Cav., died Nov. 12, '63. Removed. 
2. Adkins, William, citizen of Virginia, died August 14, '63. 

515. Adkins, William. Co. B, Witcher's Va. Cav., died November 25, '64. 
1987. Agnew, Elijah, Co. A, i6th Ga. Inf., died May 25, '65. 
1 151. Aiken, W. B., Co. C, 8th Ga. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1747. Aikins, H., Co. G, Moreland's Cavalry, died March 21, "65. 
1718. Albert, Frank, Co. F, 20th Ala. Inf., died March 20, "65. 

149. Alexander, T. B., citizen of Alabama, died June 12, '64. 

119. Alford, J., citizen of West Virginia, died March, '64. 

233. .\llen, B L., Co. D, 50th Tenn. Inf., died September 9, '64. 
1877. Allen. C. A., citizen of Georgia, died April 16, '65. 
81. Allen, J. C, Co. C, nth Tenn. Cav., died December 15, '63. 

392. Allen, Wm. H., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died Nov. 3, "64. Removed. 

121. Ambuster, G. P., died March, '64. 
1299. Anders, J., Quartermaster Department, died February 10, '65. 
1188. Anderson, Abijah, Co. F, 19th S. C. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

569. Anderson, Benjamin, Co. C, 6th Ga. Cav., died December 7, '64. 
1572. Anderson, D., Co. E, 57th Ala. Inf., died March 6, '65. 
1034. Anderson, J., Co. D, 2d Ky. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

817. Anderson, L. W.. Co. A., 17th Va. Cav., died January 22. '65. 

294. Anderson, R. B., Co. E, 34th Ga. Inf., died October 10. '64. 

558. Anderson, Robert, Co. D, 5th Tenn. Cav., died December 6, '64. 
1012. Anderson, W., Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died February 3, '65. 
1917. Andrews, Solomon O., Co. I, 63d Ga. Inf., died April 25, '65. 

313. Anloniff, E., Co. K, 8th Tenn. Cav., died October 10. '64. 

576. Archibald, L. H., Co. B, 36th Ala. Inf., died December 8, '64. 
1580. Armstead, J., Co. E, 22d Va. Inf., died March 6, '65. 

255. Armstrong, William, Co. K, Adams County, died September 18, '64 

352. Arnett, Creel, Co. C, 13th Va. Inf.. died October 23, '64. 

987. Arnold, Basham, Co. I, 6oth Va. Inf., died February i, '65. 

397. Arnold, W. A., Co. A, 2d Ky. Cav., November 3, '64. 
1540. Arrants, J. M., Johnson's Conscript, died March 4, '65. 

399. Arthur, Luke, Co. A, 36th Va. Cav., died November 4, '64. 

622. Arthurs, R. F., Co. I, 19th Va. Cav.. died December 16, '64. 



346 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Gravt'. 

677. Asbury, H. R., Co. E, loth Ky Cav., died December 28, '64. 

346: Ashtacks, William R., Co. B, 8th Tenn. Cav., died October 22, '64. 
2000. Askins, A. J., Co. E, 8th S. C. Inf., died May 25, '65. 

802. Atchison, Serg. Wm. J., Co. H, 6th Tex. Inf., died January 19, '65. 

137. Atkins, D. C, 6th Va. Cav., died April 13, '64 

424. Atkins, William B., Co. I, 24th Ala. Inf., died November 7, '64. 
25. Austin, William, Co. F, loth Ky. Cav., died September 14, '63. 
1723. Avers, B. F., Co. K, 25th Ya. Cav., died March 21, '65. 
1091. Babin, J., Co. E, 4th La. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1676. Bachelor, W, Co. B, loth Ala. Inf., died March 16, '65. 

875. Bacon. Thomas, Co. D, 25th Ga. Inf., died January 24, '65. 
1746. Bagerly, W. B., Co. D, 41st Tenn. Inf., died March 24, '65. 

866. Bagwell, S. W., Co. I, 15th Miss Inf., died January 23, '65. 
1346. Bagwell, W. W., Co. G, 7th S. C. Inf.. died February 19, '65. 

659. Bailes, Thomas R., Co. F, 22d Va. Cav., died December 23, '64. 
2063. Bailey. J., Co. B, 7th .^la. Cav., died August 9, '65. 

i486. Baker, J., Co. D, 12th Ky. Cav., died February 28, '65. 

1 177. Bailey, James H., Co. A, Miss. Inf., 15th Regt., died February 11, '65. 

692. Baker, J. M.., Co. G, 46th Ala. Inf., died January i, '65. 

562. Baker, James M., Co. F, 7th Tenn. Cav., died December 6, '64. 
1607. Baker, W., Co. I, 4th Tenn. Cav., died March 9, '65. 
1646. Baley, B. J., Co. D, 7th Miss. Inf., died March 13, '65. 

703. Balkum, James, Co. F, 20th N. C. Inf., died January 4, '65. 

974. Balls, James, Co. G, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

781. Banron, Serg. James C, Co. B, 19th La. Inf., died January 15, '65. 
59. Barber, John, Co. C, 4th Ala. Inf., died December 31, '63. 

835. Barbre, W. O., Co. B, 2d Ark. Cav., died January 22, '65. 
2012. Barger, Martin, N. C. Reserves, died June i, '65. 

739. Barker, Lewis, Co. D, 5th Ky. Inf., died January 10, '65. 
1400. Barker, N. O., Co. B, 40th Ala. Inf., died February 23, '65. 

999. Barnes, David W., Co. B, 7th Fla. Inf., died January 31, '65. 
n68. Barnes, F. W., Co. D, 2d Tenn. Cav., died February 9, '65. 
1822. Barnes. H., Co. F, 57th N. C. Inf., died April 6, '65. 

779. Barnes, J. F., Co. E, ist Va. Cav., died January, '65. 

■/2i2>- Barnett, S. A.. Co. B, 6th Ky. Cav., died January 11, '65. 

170. Barrett. J. L.. Co. C, 6th Miss. Inf., died May 31, '64. 

228. Barrett, John, Co. A, 4th Tenn. Cav., died October 17, '64. 

547. Barrett, T. C, Co. B, 15th Tex. Cav., died December 3, '64. 
1455. Barrett, T. H., Co. C, 6th Miss. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

660. Barrett, William D., Co. I, 8th Tenn. Inf.; died December 24, '64. 
478. Barrett, William F, Co. I, 42d Ga. Inf., died November 16, '64. 

98. Barron, F. H., Co. H, 4th S. C. Inf., died January 5, '64. 

351. Bartlett, W. R., Co. C, 46th Ga. Inf., died October 23, '64. 
1493. Barton, J. W., Co. I, 6th Fla. Inf., died March i, '65. 
1742. Barton, John E, Co. B. 44th Ga. Inf., died March 24, '65. 

382. Basham, Serg. David, Storr's Cavalry, died October 30, '64. 

155. Bass, J. F., Co. F, 22d Miss. Inf., died May 13, '64. 



APPEXDIX. 347 

Vo. of Grave. 

1445. Bassentine, W., Co. I. -|Oth Ga. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

720. Baswell, G. W., Co. K. 4th Tenn. Cav., died January 18, '65. 
1647. Batson, E., Co. E. i6th S. C. Inf., died March 13, '65. 

463. Baxder, Jacob, Co. C, 54th N. C. Inf., died November 14, '64. 
1349. Bayse, Samuel, 23d Va. Bat., died February 19, '65. 
1005. Beasle}% B. F., Co. A, 4th Ala. Cav., died February i, '65. 
1732. Beasley, I. A., Co. B, loth Ala. Cav., died March 22. '65. 
1679. Beasley, John, Co. E, 4th Tenn. Cav., died March 16, "65. 

771. Beasly, John M., loth Tenn. Cav., died January 15, '65. 

527. Beatty, Thomas M., Co. E, Stewart's Cavalry, died November 28, "64. 
1640. Beaucamp, J. A., Co. D, 6th Fla. Inf., died March 13, "65. 

874. Beck, Jacob, N. C. Conscript, died January 25. '65. 
1623. Beck, W. A., Co. H, 36th Ga. Inf., died March 11, '65. 

782. Beckett, James A., Co. I. 8th Conf. Cav., died January, '65. 
1 167. Bedworth, Thomas, Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 10, '65. 

556. Bell, Ezra, Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died December 5. "64. 

808. Bell, John G., Co. G, 3d Fla. Inf., died January 19, "65. 

818. Bell, Corp. John R., Co. I, 4th Fla. Inf., died January 20, '65. 

263. Bennett, J. H., Co. F, 36th Va. Inf., died September 21, '64. 

709. Bennifield, John, Beauregard's Battery, died January 7, '65. 
1806. Bensley, W. S., Co. H, 4th Tenn. Inf.. died April 3, '65. 
1406. Bentley, W. J., Co. F, 37th Miss. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
141 5. Benton, H. E., Co. E, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

530. Berrel, R. D., Co. F, 4th La. Inf., died November 28. '64. 
1888. Berry, I. G., Co. E, 30th Ga. Inf., died April 20, '65. 

832. Berr>', Serg. John F., Co. I, 4th Ky. Cav.. died January 21, '65. 
1795. Berry, Salathiel, Co. G, 4th Ala. Cav., died March 31, '65. 
1327. Berry, W. J., Co. H, 20th Tenn. Inf., died February 18, '65. 
1 199. Bertram, Pleasant, Co. E, 22d Va. Cav., died February 8, '63. 
1890. Bertrand, Andrew, Co. B. 3d La. Inf., died April 18, '65. 
1274. Bethea, H. P., Co. G, 8th S. C. Inf., died February 15, "65. 
1058. Bettiss, W. J., Co. A, 13th La. Cav., died February 5, '65. 

342. Bickerstaff, Serg. Noah, Co. B, 54th N. C. Inf., died October 21, '64. 

675. Bickley, James B., Co. A, 22d Va. Cav., died December 2~, '64. 

8y. Bigsby, Frank, Co. B, 4th Ky. Cav.. died January 5, '64. 
7819. Birchel, George W., Co. .\, ist Ala. Cav., died April 5, '65. 
1094. Bird, D., Co. K, 15th S. C. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

279. Bird, F., Co. H, 36th Ga. Inf., died October 4, '64. 

431. Bisherer, John, Co. C, 57th N. C. Inf.. died November 8, "64. 
1824. Bishop, M. L., Co. A, 19th Va. Cav., died April 7. "65. 
1721. Black, J. W., Co. H, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 20, '65. 

210. Black, John, Co. B. 19th Va. Cav., died August 18, '64. 

360. Black, John M.. Co. D, 5th .\la. Cav., died October 24, '64. 
1608. Black, W., Co. B. 51st Va. Inf.. died March 9, '65. 

275. Blackburn, William M.. Co. G, 4th Ga. Cav., died October i, '64. 
1720. Blackman, R. L., Co. C. 'ist Fla. Inf., died March 20, "65. 
27. Blackwell, M., Co. H, 3d Ky. Inf., died September 24, '63. 



348 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

-No. of Grave. 

245. Blackwood, Richard, Co. C, 20th Va. Cav., died September 15, '64. 

843. Blair, H. P., Co. D, ist Ga. Inf., died January 22, '65. 
1405. Blair, W. W., Co. C, 28th Miss. Cav., died February 22,, '65. 

514. Blank, H., Co. C, 34th Va. Cav., died November 24, '64. Removed. 

664. Blank, J. W., Co. B, 54th Ala. Inf., died December 24, '64. 
1967. Blanton, F. A.. Co. H, 4th N. C. Reserves, died May 19, '65. 
1331. Bla^dock, W. H., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died February 18, '65. 
1954. Blount, John G, Co. G, 17th N. C. Inf., died May 11, '65. 
.2029. Bolton, August R., Co. A, Freeman's Battery, died June 5, '65. 

147. Bolton, G. W., Co. D, 44th Ala. Inf., died May 3, '64. 
1077. Bolton, John, Bodger's Scouts, died February 6, '65. 
1574. Bond, W., Co. H, 3d Miss. Inf., died March 6, '65. 
1894. Bonds, G. W., Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died April 19, '65. 

127. Boone, Serg. E. K., Co. A, ist La. Cav., died March, '64. 
7364. Booth, W. B., Co. G, 2ist Va. Cav., died February 21, '65. 

842. Boothe, Abijah, Co. H, 36th Va. Inf., died January 21, '65. 

390. Boss, Leonard, Co. G, 42d Ga. Inf., died November 2, '64. 
1261. Bowers, J. F., Hampton's Legion, died February 15, '65. 

759. Bowers, Serg. Charles, Co. D, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 13, '65. 
1402. Bowles, H. C, Co. E, Warren's Regiment, died February 26, '65. 
1603. Bowlin, E. F., Co. C, 64th Va. Inf., died March 9, '65. 
1186. Bowman, James, Co. D, 3d Engineers, died February 11, '65. 

231. Boyd, Alex, Co. F, 54th N. C. Inf., died September 8, '64. 
1 130. Boyd, Robert W., Co. F, ist Ga. Inf., died February 8, '65. 
1500. Boyd, S., Co. K, 3d Miss. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

839. Boyd, W. E.. Co. A, 7th Ala. Cav., died January 22, '65. 

579. Boyles, Charles, Co. G, 55th Ala. Inf., died December 9, '64. 
1286. Bradford, J. C, Co. D, lOth Miss. Inf., died February 16, '65. 

496. Bradley, John, Co. G, 46th Ala. Inf., died November 20, '64. 

319. Brangenly, H., Co. C, 5Sth Tex. Cav., died October 16, '64. 

375. Brantley, M. F., Tullis's Artillery, died October 28, '64. 
1971. Brantley, W. W., Co. G. 42d N. C. Inf., died May 11, '65. 
T086. Brasham, Eli M., Co. A, 8th S. C. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

273. Brasswell, M. P., Co. E, 29th Ga. Inf., died September 28, '64. 
83. Brazier, Ellis, 64th Tenn. Inf., died December 16, '63. 
1593. Brians, R. H., Co. A. 17th Va. Cav., died March 8, '65. 
1643. Briant, R., Co. H, 21st Va. Cav., died March 13, '65. 
1036. Bridges, Serg. B., Co. M, 7th Ala. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

61. Bridget, Benjamin, Co. G, 4th Ky., died November 9, '63. 
1238. Briggs, Henry, Co. D, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

809. Briggins, J. H., Co. G, 22d Tenn. Inf., died January 19, '65. 
2043. Brinkley, R., Co. C, Freeman's Battery, died June 14, '65. 

713. Brock, C. A. H., Co. E, soth Ga. Inf., died January 5, '65. 

1 141. Brock, Calvin, Co. B., 8th S. C. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
53. Brock, G. H., Co. G, 2d Ky. Inf., died October 20, '63. 

669. Brock, J. D., died December 27, '64. 

1074. Brooklin, Isaac V., Co. B, 57th Ga. Inf.. died February 6, '65. 



APPENDIX. 

No. of Grave. 

1542. Brooks, A. G., Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died March 4, '65. 

858. Brooks, Serg. C. E., Co. F, 2d S. C. Inf., died January 23, '65. 

680. Brooks, E. B., Co. K, ist Ga. Inf., died December 25, '64. 
1334. Brooks, J. T., Co. E, 32d Miss. Bat., died February 19, '65. 
1223. Brooks, Jesse, Co. I, 40th Miss. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

120. Brooks, R., Co. C, 2d Ark. Inf., died March, '64. 

486. Brookshire, N. F., Co. G, is'^ Ga. Inf., died November 19, '64. 

125. Brown, , died Marc'i, *';,( 

435. Brown, A. L., Co. H, 30th Ga. Inf., died November 8, '64. 

950. Brown, B. R., Co. K, S2d Ga. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

598. Brown, Crockett, Co. H, i8th Tenn. Cav., died December 11, '64, 

646. Brown, D. E., government employ, Ala., died December 22, '64. 

. Brown, E. A., Co. E, 7th Va. Cav., died June 21, '65. 

1558. Brown, J. J., Co. K, 22d Ala. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

1370. Brown, John, Conscript of Tennessee, died February 21, '65. 

574. Brown, John M., Co. K, 15th S. C. Inf., died December 8, '64. 
1502. Brown, M., Wordais's Cavalry, died March i, '65. 

985. Brown, R. S., Co. G, nth Va. Cav., died January 31, '65. 

472. Brown, Robert, Co. G, 30th Ga. Inf., died November 15, '64. 

56. Brown, Russel, nth Tenn. Cav., died October 28, '63. 
]794. Brown, Wiley S., Co. A, nth Tenn. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

432. Brown, William, Co. B, 33d Ala. Inf., died November 8, '64. 
1131. Brown, W. S., Madison's Artillery, died February 15, '65. 
1206. Browning, B., Co. K, 29th Ga. Inf., died February 12, '65. 

868. Browning, Stephen, Co. C, 45th Ga. Inf., died January 25, '65. 

6..I3. Bruge, David A., Co. D, 30th Va. Cav., died December 21, '64. 
201 1. Bryan, J. D., Co. K, 39th Ala. Inf., died June i, '65. 
1750. Bryan, S. W., Co. G, 25th Ga. Inf., died March 25, '65. 

430. Bryant, Jesse, Co. A, 66th Ga. Inf., died November 8, '64. 
1953. Brj^ant, P. A., Co. H, 46th Miss. Inf., died May 10, '65. 
1496. Buckhart, George, Co. B, Hill's Cavalry, died March i, '65. 
1884. Buckhart, George, 7th Fla. Inf., died March, '65. 
1059. Buitt, John, Co. F. 19th S. C. Inf., died February 5, '65. 

542. Bullington, T. R., Co. C, 8th Tenn. Cav., died December 2, '64. 

449. Bullock, G. K., Co. F, 6th Fla. Inf., died November 13, '64. 
1266. Bumgarden, John B., Co. E, 8th Va. Cav., died February 14, '65. 

661. Bumpers, D. D., Co. E, 24th Ala. Inf., died December 24, '64. 

2,7:^. Bumpers, Nath, Co. E, 24th Ala. Inf., died October 28, '64. 
2016. Bunch, S. F., Co. E, 29th Tenn. Inf., died June 2, '65. 

334. Burgess, George H., citizen of Ohio, died October 18, '64. 
2006. Burgess, I. H., Co. B, 8th Ga. Inf., died May 30, '65. 
1353- Burgis, R. F., Co. H, Moreland's Battery, died February 20, '65. 
1984. Burkett, John A., Co. G, 6th Fla. Inf., died May 19, "65. 

929. Burnett, I., died January 28, "65. 
1669. Burnett, J., Co. E, ist Tenn. Cav., died March 15, '65. 

381. Burnette, , citizen of Louisiana, died October 30, '64. 

82. Burns, Andrew, Co. C. 36th Va. Cav., died December 16, '63. 



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350 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1744. Burt, Andy, Co. C, 22A Miss. Inf., died March 24, '65. 
1577. Burt, F. J., Co. D, 22A. Miss. Inf., died March 6, '65. 
1926. Burt, John W., Co. B, 34th Ala. Inf., died April 28, '65. 
1209. Burton, J., Co. C, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 12, '65. 

174. Burton, J. D., 15th Tenn. Cav., died June 8, '64. 
1934. Busby, I. A., Co. E, 31st Ala. Inf., died May 4, '65. 
1889. Bush, Daniel, Co. B, 39th Miss. Inf., died April 17, "65. 
1439. Bush, J. S., Co. G, 33d Ala. Inf., died February 25, '65. 

716. Bush, P. C, Co. E, 6th Fla. Inf., died January 5, '65 
1070. Bushby, Matthew B., Co. B, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 6, '65 

753. Bustle, W., Co. H, 8th Tenn. Cav., died January 12, '65. 

700. Butcher, Evan, Co. B, 46th Bat., Va. Cav., died January 3. '65. 
1501. Butler, John, Co. B, 5th Bat. Va. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

92,2. Butts, W. R., Co. F, nth Tenn. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
2037. Byn, J., Co. K, 9th Ark. Inf., died June 11, '65. 
1682. Caigle, N. H., Co. D, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 16, '65. 
■/2. Cain, J. D., Co. C, loth Ky. Cav., died November 27, '63. 
2024. Caine, James A., Co. I, 55th Ala. Inf., died June 4, '65. 
2020. Caldwell, R. P. C, Co. K, 21st Miss. Inf., died June 2, '65. 
1581. Callahan, W. J., Co. F, 63d Va. Inf., died March S, '65. 
1247. Calley, J. W., Co. C, 42d Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

776. Calvin, John W., Co. C, 14th Ky. Cav., died January 15, '65. 
1550. Cammons, Thomas, Co. C, 12th Tenn. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

249. Camp, Joseph M., Co. K, 64th Ga. Inf., died September 16, '64. 

955. Camp, William, Co. B, 4th Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1022. Campbell, A., Co. D, 2d Ky. Bat. Cav., died February 3, '65. 
1483. Campbell, F., Co. H, 8th Tenn. Cav., died February 25, '65. 
1690. Campbell, G. B., Co. B, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 17, '65. 
1517. Campbell, J., Co. D, 4th La. Inf., died March 3, '65. 

615. Campbell, J. A., Co. H, 20th Tenn. Inf., died December 14, '64. 

599. Campbell, J. J., Co. H, 40th Ga. Inf., died December 11, '64. 
1621. Campbell, R. B., Co. I, 27th Va. Cav., died March 11, "65. 
1095. Campbell, S., Co. E, ist Ga. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1851. Campbell, T. J., Co. A, sth Mo. Inf., died April 11, '65. 

237. Canada, Thomas F., Co. H,'Fornett's La. Bat., died September 11, '64 
1587. Canipy, Eli, Co. F, 58th N. C. Inf., died March 7, '65. 

840. Cannon, T. E., Co. D, 5th Ky. Cav., died January 22, '65. 

788. Canseg, J. L., 3d Bat., Miss. Inf., died January 16, '65. 

702. Canterbury, I. N., Co. C, 32d Ala. Inf., died January 3, '65. 

877. Cantrell, W. C, Co. K, 21st Tenn. Cav., died January 25, '65. 

783. Capdeville, J. B., Co. C, 30th La. Inf., died January 15, '65. 

183. Caper, J. B., Co. H, 23d Va. Cav., died July 9, '64. 
1993. Carle, T. T., Co. K, 4th La. Inf., died May 23, '65. 
1093. Carley, J. A., Co. K, 15th S. C. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1279. Carlisle, G. B. W., Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

577. Carmichael, William T., Co. H, Sth Tenn. Cav., died December 8, '64 

349. Carnett, E. W., Co. G, ist Ga. Cav., died October 23, '64. 



APPENDIX. 351 

No. of Grave. 

458. Carney, J. W., Co. E, 4th Ky. Inf., died November 13, '64. 

296. Carpenter, William, Co. K, 8th S. C. Cav., died October 10, '64. 
HOC. Carr, R., Co. A, 57th Ala. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

300. Carr, William, Co. A, 24th Ga. Inf., died October 11, '64. 
1829. Carrigan, C. H., Co. D, 8th Tenn. Inf., died April 8, '65. 

704. Carroll, B., Co. A, 57th Ala. Inf., died January 5, '65. 
1505. Carroll, H., Co. D, 7th Miss. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

66. Carroll, H., Walker's Battery, died November 16, '63. 
T949. Carroll, James, Co. H, 94th Va. Inf., died May 9, '65. 
1818. Carroll, Stephen, Co. C, 22d Miss. Inf., died April 5, '65. 

295. Carroll, William F., Co. F, 40th Ga. Inf., died October 10, '64. 
1660. Carroll, W., Co. H, 4th Ala. Cav., died March 14, '65. 

2,72. Carson, Robert, Co. B, 37th Va. Cav., died October 28, '64. 
2013. Carter, A., Co. E, 24th S. C. Inf., died June 13, '65. 

135. Carter, George R., 9th Tenn. Cav., died April 13, '64. 

678. Carter, J. W., Co. G, 27th Miss. Inf., died December 29, '64. 
1807. Carter, Joel, Co. F, 63d Va. Cav., died April 2, '65. 
1324. Carter, Moses, Co. G, 3d Miss. Inf., died February 18, '65. 

972. Carter, Robert, Co. A, ist Md. Cav., died January 30, '65. 
1840. Carter, William, Co. E, 1st Tenn. Cav., died April 10, '65. 
1891. Casey, Jesse, Dent's Battery, died April 18, '65. 
1473. Cass, J., Young's Battery, died February 24, '65. 
loio. Cassell, W. B., Co. I, 7th Fla. Inf., died February 2, '65. 

324. Caster, Tuck, Co. F, 43d Tenn. Inf., died October 15, '64. 

22,7. Cathcart, Lieut. John H., Co. G, 43d Tenn. Inf., died October 18, '64. 
1492. Cavender, William, Co. H, 8th Miss. Inf., died March i, '65. 

848. Cazby, J. J., Co. H, 58th Ala. Inf., died January 23, '65. 
1801. Cease, D. J., Co. C, 15th S. C. Inf., died March 18. '65. 

436. Chamberlain, R. M., 36th Tenn. Cav., died November 8, '64. 

568. Chambers, J. T., Co. G, 37th Va. Cav., died December 7. '64. 
2018. Chambers, James, Co. B, i6th Ga. Cav., died June 3, '65. 
1 163. Chambers, W. L., Co. E, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 10. '65. 

722. Ghana, P. C, Co. G, 3d Fla. Inf., died January 9, '65. 
1442. Channel, T. W., Co. H, 2d Ga. Cav., died February 25, '65. 
1697. Chapman, E. T., Co. C, 63d Ga. Inf., died March 18, '65. 
1332. Chapman, J. L., Co. E, 37th Ala. Inf., died February 18, '65. 
7082. Chapman, L., Co. K, nth Tenn. Cav., died February 7, '65. 
1098. Chappell, A. M., Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1221. Cheek, Allen R., Co. I, 41st Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 
\-:,i7. Cheek, P. B., Co. D, i6th Ga. Cav., died March 4, '65. 
34. Cherry, F., Co. D, of Tennessee, died October 4, '63. 

650. Childers, W. M., Co. A, 43d Ga. Inf., died December 22. "64. 
1875. Childs, R. B., Co. H, 30th Ga. Inf.. died April 7, '65. 
1521. Chilla^tt, J. W., Co. I, 13th Tenn. Inf., died March 3, '65. 
T413. Chitwood, R. O., Roddy's Escort, died February 24, '65. 

198. Christian, B., Co. E, 8th Ga. Inf., died August 13, '64. 

202. Christian, Jacob, Co. B, 24th Bat.. Va. Cav., died August 14, '64. 



352 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1807. Chudler, Jeff, Co. H, 2Sth Va. Cav., died March 26, '65. 
1595. Church, S. H., Co. D, 30th Miss. Inf., died March 8, '65. 
2000. Claiman, James, Co. E, ist Va. Bat. Inf., died May 26, '65. 
1046. Clanahan, W., Co. E, i8th Ala. Inf., died February 4, '65. 
1 1 13. Clark, Albert, Marshal's Battery, died February 8, '65. 

466. Clark, E. J., Co. A, 4th Ala, Inf., died November 14, '64. 

837. Clark, H. Y., Co. A, 54th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

. Clark, J. J., Co. G, 7th Fla. Inf., died March 3, '65. 

195 1. Clark, John, Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died May 10, '65. 

934. Clark, Julius T., Co. H, Moreland's Bat. Cav., died January 28, '65. 
1326. Clark, M., Co. B, 2d Ky. Cav., died February 18, '65. 
1963. Clark, M. T., Co. C, 29th N. C. Inf., died May 13, '65. 
1 35 1. Clark., Robert, Carroll County, Ark., died February 20, '65. 

474. Clayborn, Thomas B., Co. C, s6th Ga. Inf., died November 16, '64. 
1246. Clayton, R., Co. G, 14th N. C. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
1910. Clearman, W. W., Co. D, 3d Miss. Inf., died April 24, '65. 

812. Clemens, J. W., Co. I, S2d Va. Inf., died January 19, '65. 
1321. Clement, Griffin, Co. D, 30th Ala. Inf., died February 18, '65. 

488. Clements, B. F., Co. H, 36th Ala. Inf., died November 19, '64. 

405. Clerpuns, M. M., Co. A, 31st Miss. Inf., died November 5, '64. 

274. Clipton, H., died September 29, '64. 
1020. Cluck, James, Co. C, 31st Tenn., died February 3, '65. 

763. Coatney, John, Co. E, 6th Fla., died January 14, '65. 
2030. Coble, G., Co. H, ist N. C. Conscript, died June 5, '65. 
S7. Cochran, J. D., Co. C, 5th Ky. Inf., died December 23, '63. 

370. Cochran, J. S., Co. G, 41st Miss. Inf., died October 26, '64. 

762. Cochran, John, Co. F, 39th Miss., died January 14, '65. 
1893. Cochran, R. C, Co. F, 46th Miss. Inf., died April 18, '65. 

903. Coffee, J. E., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died January 27, '65. 

317. Cogee, Christopher, citizen of Virginia, died October 15, '64. 
1368. Coggins, J. M., Co. A, 56th Ga. Inf., died February 21, '65. 
2028. Cole, David T., Co. K, 56th Ga. Inf., died June 5, '65. 
1284. Cole, J. G., Co. C, 37th Ga. Inf., died February 16, '65. 
1759. Coleman, John, Co. B, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 26, '65. 
. CoUedge, H. P., died January 24, '65. 

958. Collins, J. H. (Hospital Steward), 20th Miss. Inf., died Jan. 29, '65. 

736. Collins, James, Co. B, 63d Ga. Inf., died January 10, '65. 

i8o. Collins, S., Co. F, ist Ky. Cav., died June 25, '64. 
1985. Colton. E. P., Co. A, 56th Ga. Inf., died May 19. '65. 

154. Combs, Peter, Co. B, 8th Ky. Inf., died May 12, '64. 

872. Cone, Thomas, Co. D, 21st Tenn. Cav., died January 24, '65. 
1935. Coniway, G. W., Co. G, 46th Ala. Inf., died May 4, '65. 

182. Conran, Robert, citizen of Virginia, died July 9, '64. 
1582. Consert, S. J., Co. I, 47th Tenn. Inf., died March 7, '65. 
1071. Cook, David, Co. I, 36th Va. Inf., died February 6, '65. 

T94. Cook, James, Co. C, 26th Va. Inf., died August 6, '64. 

315. Cook, John, citizen of Virginia, died October 15, '64. 



APPENDIX. 353 

No. of Grave. 

1435- Cook, J. J., Co. B, 30th Ala. Inf., died February 25, '65. 
1302. Cooksey, J. AI., Co. K, ist Ga. Sta., died February 16, '65. i 

1416. Coonts, J., Co. A, 27th Va. Cav., died February 24, '65. i 

7i. Cooper, Thompson, citizen of Virginia, died November 28, '63. 

683. Cooper, William, Co. D, loth C. S. Cav., died December 30, '64. 
1289. Cooper, William S., Co. I, 33d Miss. Inf., died February i, '65. 
1272. Copeland, George A., Co. A, 56th Ga. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

652. Cornelius, B., Co. K, i8th Ala. Inf., died December 22, '64. 
5. Cornell, J., Co. I, 4th Ala. Inf., died August 10, '63. 

944. Corrall, W. W., Co. K, 57th N. C. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
mi. Cowan, Samuel, Co. G, Soth Ala. Inf., died February 8, '65. ' 

593. Cowart, A. W., Co. B, 40th Ala. Inf., died December 10, '64. 
1861. Cowell, Elias, Co. B, 20th Va. Cav., died April 14, '65. 
1733- Cowine, J. W., Co. E, 30th Ga. Inf., died March 22, '65. ' 

1775- Cowinan, H., citizen of Virginia, died March 28, '65. ' 

93. Cox, First Serg. J., 3d C. S. Cav., died January 13, '64. ! 

1270. Cox, M. M., Co. D, 32d Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. ' 

1081. Cox, Stephen L., Co. B, 4th La. Bat., died February 7, '65. ; 

1424. Coy, Charles W., Co. E, 8th S. C. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

270. Coydell, John, Bat. N. C. Inf., died September 28, '64. 

953. Crabb, Richard, Co. D, 34th Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1564. Crabtree, H., Co. K, 27th Miss. Inf., died March 5, '65. 
1355- Craft, J., Co. B, loth Ga. Cav., died February 20, '65. 

686. Cragle, W. C, Co. D, Sist Tenn. Inf., died December 31, '64. 

623. Craig, J. M., Co. K, 48th Tenn. Inf., died December 16, 64. 

754. Crane, N. W., Co. C, 38th Ga. Inf., died January 12, '65. 
1013. Crane, W. R. D., Co. L, 7th Ala. Cav., died February 3, '65. 
1615. Crawford, D., Co. I, 15th Miss. Inf., died March 10, '65. 
1456. Crawford, James, Conscript Guards, died February 26, '65. 

611. Crawford, John, Co. E, 36th Va. Inf., died December 13, '64. 
1930. Crawley, John, Co. G, 66th Ga. Inf., died May 2, '65. 
1944. Cree, G. P. H., Co. K, 29th Ala. Inf., died May 8, '65. 

591. Creed, Thomas, Co. A, 35th Miss. Inf., died December 10, '64. 
1544. Crenshaw, J., Co. F, 7th Fla. Inf., died March 4, '65. • 

1606. Crenshaw, L., Co. K, 52d Ga. Inf., died March 9, '65. 

343. Cress, James H., Co. G, 21st Va. Cav., died October 20, '64. 
1525. Cronk, E., Co. D, 54th Va. Inf., died March 3, '65. 
1590. Crosswhite, H., Co. G, loth Ala. Cav., died March 8, '65. 

1345. Crow, J. S., Co. G, 14th Miss. Inf., died February 19, '65. 
205. Crow, S. H., Co. F, 3d Ala. Cav., died August 15, '64. 

lOii. Crow, W. L. D., Co. A, 57th Ala. Inf., died February 2, '65. 

1767. Crowder, James W., Co. F, 5th Tenn. Inf., died March 26, '65. 

1352. Crowley, J. W., Co. H, 32d Tex. Bat., died February 20, '65. 

128. Crum, W. R., Stodgalis's Cavalry, died April 7, '64. 

1758. Crump, S. S., Co. F, loth Ala. Cav., died March 26, '65. 

1165. Cruse, M., Co. F, 43d N. C. Inf.. died February 10, '65. 

1346. Cruss, J. W., Co. D, 21st N. C. Cav., died February 19, '65. 

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:354 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1062. Crutchfield, P. S., Quartermaster's Dept., died February 5, '65. 
1258. Cullan, W., Co. A, nth S. C. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1052. Cullin, I. M., Co. H, 22d Ala. Inf., died February 5, '65. 

841. Cunningham, J. C, Co. I, 3d Conf., died January 22, '65. 

353. Cunningham, J. T., Co. G, 54th Ala. Inf., died October 23, '64. 

673. Cunningham, S., Co. I, 17th Va. Cav., died December 24, '64. 
1896. Cupp, Alexander, Co. K, 7th Ga. Inf., died April 19, '65. 

766. Currier, A. J., Co. F, 22d Ala., died January 14, '65. 

922. Custer, Madison, Co. F, 22d Miss. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

919. Custer, William G., Co. D, 29th N. C. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1532. Cutlipp, Jackson, Co. H, 19th Va. Cav., died March 4, '65. 

176. Dagley, Milton, Co. H, 2d Tenn. Cav., died June 12, '64. 
1641. Dailey, Patrick, Co. B, ist Ga. Inf., died March 13, '65. 

48. Daniel, Lieut. J. A., 17th Tenn. Cav., died October 12, '63.- 
1787. Daniel, J. W., Co. C, iSth Miss. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

536. Daniels, J. W., Co. A, 54th Ala. Inf., died November 30, '64. 

305. Daniels, John, Co. E, 2d Va. Inf., died October 12, '64. 

822. Daniels, K., Co. F, 57th Ala. Inf., died January 21, '65. 

385. Darby, B. F., Co. A, S7th Ala. Inf., died October 31, '64. 

367. Date, T. H., Co. C, 22d Ala. Inf., died October 26, '64. 
1428. David (or Daniels), E., Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 24, '65. 

602. Davidson, J., Co. C, 27th Va. Cav., died December 11, '64. 
1689. Davis, Charles, Co. K, 8th S. C. Inf., died March 17, '65. 

850. Davis, George, Co. F, 20th Va. Cav., died January 23, '65. 
1440. Davis, H., Co. C, Engineer Corps, died February 25, '65. 
1557. Davis, H. N.. Co. K, 14th Tenn. Cav., died March 5, "65. 
1597. Davis, J. P., Co. A, 2d Ky. Cav., died March 9, '65. 
1638. Davis, M. J., Co. G, 45th Va. Inf., died March 13, '65. 
1599. Davis, N., Co. F, ist Miss. Bat., died March 8, '65. 
13. Davis, P. F., 5th N. C. Cav., died September 13, '63. 

yyj. Davis, Pringle, Co. A, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 15, '65. 
1469. Davis, Thomas. Co. E, 33d Ala. Inf., died February 2J, '65. 
1671. Davis, W. R., Co. C, 52d Ga. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

285. Dean, W. H., Co. G, ist Ga. Inf., died October 7, '64. 
1329. Deans, A., Co. K, 35th Miss. Inf., died February 18, '65. 

629. Deckson, John, Co. K, ist Tenn. Cav., died December 18, "64. 

995. Deiver, J. R., Co. K, 36th Ga. Inf., died February 2, '65. 

123. DeLock, J., loth C. S., died March, '64. 

393. Demain, D., Co. B, 7th S. C. Inf., died November 3. '64. 
1712. Denniston, P. H., Co. B, 114th Tenn. Inf.. died March 20, '65. 

107. Derryberry, J. D., Co. B, nth Tenn. Cav., died February, '64. 

855. Dethridge, J. G., Co. D, 8th Va. Cav., died January 23, '65. 

166. Dethridge, M., Co. L, 2d Ky. Cav., died May 24, '64. 
1253. Dickie, S. W., Co. G, i8th Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

695. Dilland, T. E., Co. G, 40th Ala. Inf., died January 2, '65. 
1916. Dilley, Thomas, Co. I, 19th Va. Cav.. died April 25, '65. 
1066. Dillingham, J. A., Co. C, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 6, '65. 



APPENDIX. . 355 

No. of Grave. 

1758. Dillingham, J. S., Co. C, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 27, "65. 
1855. Dillon, Joel, Co. E, Mussy's Battery, died April 13, '65. 

524. Dillon, W. D., Co. G, 2d Va. Cav., died November 27, '64. 

685. Dills, James, Co. F, 21st Va. Cav., died December 30, '64. 
1586. Dinwiddie, David, Co. A, La. Sharpshooters, died March 7, '65. 
1 128. Dirden, B. W., Co. A, 45th Ala. Inf., died February 8, '65. 
1037. Ditto, J., Co. L, Sth Ala. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

383. Doig, W. P., Co. C, 40th Ga. Inf., died October 30, '64. 
1777. Dolan, Joshua, Co. C, Sth Tenn. Cav., died March 29, '65. 
1215. Dorlas, W. A., Co. A, 32d Miss. Inf., February 13, '65. 
1004. Dorsett, Philip, Co. H, 46th Ga. Inf., died February 3, "65. 
1369. Dougherty, R., Co. D, 4th La. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

244. Dougherty, T. R., Co. G, 4th La. Inf., died October 22, '64. 

487. Dougherty, W., Co. B, ist Ga. Art., died November 19, '64. 
1967. Dougherty, W. P., Co. H, 22d Va. Cav., died May 15, '65. 

799. Douglas, James A., Co. I, 34th Ala. Inf., died January 18, '65. 
1374. Dowsing, F. L., Co. F, Sth C. S. Cav., died February 22, '65. 

167. Doxe}^ Martin, Co. D, ist Ky. Cav., died May 27, '64. 
1653. Doyle, Charles, Co. H, 2d Tenn. Cav., died March 14, '65. 

772. Doyle, J., Co. I, isth Tenn. Inf., died January 14, '65. 
1694. Drake, J. W., Co. K, 4th Ala. Inf., died March 17, '65. 
1838. Drake, S. R., Co. G, 20th Tenn. Cav., died April 10, '65. 
1465. Driggers, J., Co. B, 8th S. C. Inf., died February 27, '65. 
1014. Driggers, J. J., Perry's Battery, died February 3, '65. 
1140. Driggers, Simpson, Co. A, 7th Fla. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1235. Drisbach, T. R., Co. F, 7th Ala. Cav., died February 14, '65. 

738. Driscoll, W., Co. A, ist Tenn. Cav., died January 10, '65. 

616. Drum, C. H.,.Co. G, 17th Tenn. Cav., died December 14, '64. 

926. Drum, Thomas, Co. B, 19th S. C. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1802. Dubard, Phil C, Co. A, 15th Miss. Inf.. died April i, '65. 
so. Dudley, C. H., loth Tenn. Cav., died October 16, 'C3. 

741. Dudley, Charles W., Co. E, 30th Miss. Inf., died January 10, '6s. 
ISS3- Duerson, J. M., Co. E, 34th Ga. Inf., died March 5, '65. 
2003. Duke, Stephen, Marshall's Battery, died May 28. '6s. 

316. Dunaway, David, Co. D, 34th Ala. Inf., died October is. '64. 
1281. Dunbar, T. G., Co. A, 57th Ga. Inf., died February is, '6s. 

429. Duncan, George W., Co. G, 3d C. S. Inf., died November 8, '64. 
99. Duncan, I., Co. D, 8th Tenn. Cav., died January, '64. 
60. Duncan, J. J., Co. I, Forrest's Tenn. Cav., died November 9, '62,. 

310. Duncan, John W., Co. G, s6th Ga. Inf., died October 12, '64. 

892. Duncan, Wm. H., Conscript, Tenn. Guards, died January 26, '65. 

200. Dunham, Davidson, Co. D, 3d Fla. Inf., died January 31. '65. 
1295. Dupree, Richard, Co. B, 34th Ala. Inf., died February 16, '6s. 
i6ss Eagle, George, citizen of Virginia, died IMarch 14, '65. 
178s. Eagle, H. F., citizen of Virginia, died March 29, '6s. 

241. Eagle, M., Nitre Mining Bureau, died September 14, '64. 
1948. Earnhart, James B., Co. K, ist S. C. Inf., died May 9, '65. 



356 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1612. Easter, T. M., Co. A, 37th Va. Cav., died March 10, "65. 

492. Eaton, M. J., Co. F, 8th Va.- Cav., died November 20, "64. 

461. Eaton, W., Co. A, 4th Tenn. Cav., died November 14, '64. 

986. Echols, J. M., Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

389. Eddins, H. K., Co. C. 3d Tenn. Cav., died November i, '64. 

787. Edgar, Thomas, Co. A, 46th Ala. Inf., died January 16, '65. 

420. Edson, Henry S., Citizen of Virginia, died November 7, '64. 

998. Edwards, John W., Co. C, ist Ga. Bat., died January 31, '65. 

160. Edwards, Owen, Co. B, ist Ky. Cav., died May 20, '64. 

617. Edwards, W. W., Co. B, 54th N. C. Inf., died December 15, '64. 
1 291. Egnor, W. G., Co. D, 34th Va. Cav., died February 16, '65. 
1446. Elkin, John, Co. K, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 26, '65. 
1040. Elian, W., Co. G, 13th Va. Inf., died February 4, '65. 
1050. Ellington, P., Co. E, sth Miss. Cav., died February 5, '65. 
94. Elliot, J. S., Co. F, 62d N. C. Cav., died June 13, '64. 

445. Ellis, E. W., Co. D, 6th Fla. Inf., died November 10, '64. 

834. Ellis, J. R., citizen of Virginia, died January 22, '65. 

17. Ellis, Joseph, Co. B, 5th Ky. , died September 30, '63. 

51. Elliston, Ed G., Co. H, 62d Va. , died October 18, '63. 

2049. Eloryge, Hiram, Co. I, 28th Va. Cav., died June 21, '65. 

578. Elrod, J. B., Co. F, 39th Ga. Inf., died December 9, '64. 

876. Embler, Pusey, Co. C, 29th A. C. Inf., died January 24, '65. 

546. Emerson, John M., Co. K, 12th N. C. Inf., died December 2, '64. 
1 198. Emory, I. H., Co. B, 2d Md. Cav., died February 12, '65. 
2004. Enbanks, Al, Co. A, 28th Ala. Inf., died June 28, '65. 
2022. Enbanks, E. H., Co.. K, 3d Ala. Cav., died June 5, '65. 
1579. England, F. M., Co. A, 3d S. C. Inf., died March 6, '65. 
1427. England, R. S., Co. A, 2d Mo. Inf., died February 24, '65. 
1018. English, Eli, Co. K, 33d Ala. Inf., died February 3, '65. 
looi. Erskine, J. C, Co. K, 37th Va. Cav., died February i, '65. 
1372. Ervin, I., Co. E, loth Ala. Cav., died February 21, '65. 
1996. Esell, J. N., Co. H, 59th Ala. Inf., died May 23, '65. 
1366. Esmond, R., Co. H, 15th Ala. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

284. Estes, B. O., Co. A, 9th Ga. Inf., died October 7, '64. 

301. Estes, John, Co. A, 5th Miss. Inf., died October 12, '64. 
1614. Estes, John, Co. B, i6th Ga. Cav., died March 10, '65. 
1069. Estiss, Allen T., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died February 6, '65. 
1494. Evans, William, Co. F, 46th Ga. Inf., died March i, '65. 
1859. Everett, H. M., Co. D, 22d Tenn. Cav., died April 13, '65. 
1369. Ewing, J. J., Co. C, 32d Ala. Inf., died February 21. '65. 
1379. Ewing, W. W., Co. F, 5th Ala. Cav., died February 22, '65. 
1434. Eye, W. M., Co. K, 62d Va. Inf., died February 25. '65. 
1234. Faircloth, J. F., Co. G, 57th Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
1895. Falkner, H. B., citizen of Kentucky, died April 19, '65. 

590. Falsom, , Co. F, 6th Fla. Inf., died December 10, '64. 

304. Fanclothe, Wilson, Co. G, 6th Fla. Inf., died October 16, '64. 

757. Faimin, Theodore, Co. H, — Va. Inf., died January 13, '65. 



APPENDIX. 357 

No. of Grave. 
494. Fanom, Miller, Co. C, 5th K}-. Inf., died November 20, '64. 
262. Farmier, Jacob H., Co. A, 42d Ga. Inf., died September 21, '64. 
289. Farmer, Reuben, Co. K, 43d Ga. Inf., died October 8, '64. 
471. Farrell, L., Co. C, S4th Ala. Inf., died November 15, '64. 
196. Farris, S., Co. G, 25th Tenn. Inf., died August 9, '64. 
931. Farris, Thomas, Co. I, 13th Bat. Va. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
895. Farrow, A. H., Co. C, 28th Bat. Va. Cav., died January 25, '65. 
813. Farrow, G. W., Co. K, 56th Ga. Inf., died January 20, '65. 
1849. Farthing, Paul, Co. A, nth N. C. Inf., died April 11, '65. 
1914. Farthing, R. P., Co. A, iithN. C. Inf., died April 24, '65. 
47. Fenell, Jeff, Co. K, 17th Tenn., died October 10, '63. 
192. Fenton, W. E., Co. B, 20th Va. Inf., died August i, '64. 
468. Fergvison, A. P., Co. G, 21st Va. Cav., died November 15, '64. 
1503. Fields, J., Co. A, 21st Tenn. Inf., died March 2, '65. 
14. Fields, S. A., 3d C. S. Cav., died September 16, '63. 
470. Finch, J., Patterson's Battery, died November 15, '64. 
879. Fincher, W. C, Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died January 25, "65. 
1 192. Fircley, E. J., Co. H, 31st Miss. Inf., died February 11, '65. 
1297. Firney, S. B., Co. K, S4th Ga. Inf., died February 16, '65. 
870. Fishbrom, F. B., Co. A, 37th Bat. Va. Cav., died January 25, '65. 

49. Fisher, W. H., citizen of Virginia, died October 13, '62,. 
T032. Fitzgerald, W. C, Co. D, 36th Bat. Va. Cav., died February 3, '65. 
1674. Fitzgerald, W. C, Co. E, 36th Va. Cav., died March 16, '65. 
211. Flake, S. L., Co. A, 15th Tenn. Inf., died August 19, '64. 
786. Fleeman, L. W., Co. F, 54th Va. Inf., died January 16, '65. 
374. Fleming, George, Co. I, i8th Tenn. Cav., died October 28, '64. 
1300. Fleming, Louis, Co. H, 22d Va. Cav., died February 16, '65. 
1961. Fletcher, Newton, Co. G, 25th Va. Cav., died May 12, '65. 
756. Flippo, A. Y., Co. K, 49th Ala. Inf., died January 13, '65. 
801. Floyd, I. A., Co. K, 49th Ala. Inf., died January 19, '65. 
1027. Floyd, Robert, Co. C, 1st Ky. Cav., died February 8, '65. 
287. Flurry, Thomas G., Co. D, 42d Ala. Inf., died October 8, '64. 
1587. Foly, P., Co. I, 3d La. Inf., died March 4, '65. 
172. Fontaine, J. A., Co. F, 12th Va. Cav., died June 2, '64. 
465. Fonville, John F., Co. C, ist Miss., died November 14, '64. 

76. Ford, J. D., died December i, '63. 
1347. Ford, W. H., Co. H, S4th Ala. Inf., died February 18, '65. 
1965. Fore, Daniel, Co. B, 39th Miss. Inf., died May 14, '65. 

97. Fore, F. A., Co. K, 5th Tenn. Inf., died January 18, '64. 
1836. Forrest, J. G., Co. I, 29th Ga. Inf., died April 9, '65. 
961. Fortenburg, John, Co. H, Lowry's Miss. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
103. Foust, E., Co. E, 5th Tenn. Inf., died February 6, '64. 
1912. Fowler, E., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died April 24, '65. 
1541. Fowler, J. L., Co. B, 13th Bat. Va. Inf., died March 4, '65. 
388. Fowler, W., Co. H, 5th Ga. Inf., died November i, '64. 
102. Fox, J. J., Co. B, nth Tex. Cav., died January 18, '64. 
690. Fox, James P., Co. B, 17th Va. Cav., died December 31, '64. 



358 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

640. Francesco, D. B., Co. A. 12th Tenn. Cav., died December 21, '64. 
1931. Francis, N. F., Co. E, Thomas's N. C. Legion, died May 2, '65. 

522. Francum, W., Co. E, 58th N. C. Inf., died November 27, '64. 

648. Franklin, Albert, Co. K, 46th Miss. Inf., died December 22, '64. 
1083. Franklin, C. W., Co. H, 23d Tenn. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1061. Franklin, Peter, Co. A, 8th C. S. Cav., died February 5, '65. 

724. Frasier, J. S., Co. F. 2d Miss. Inf., died January 9, '65. 

302. Frazzell, Thomas, Co. F, 34th Ala. Inf., died October 12, '64. 
1049. Free, Malachi. Co. A, 52d Ga. Inf., died February 4, '65. 

320. Freeland, J., Co. B, 41st Ga. Inf., died October 16, '64. 
1765. Freeling, Finney, Co. A, 4th Ala. Cav., died March 27, '65. 
1375- Freeman, A. W., Co. D, 5th Ala. Cav., died February 22, '65. 
1448. Freeman, J. M., Co. K, 7th Miss. Inf., died March 13, '65. 
1753. Freeman, M. M.. Co. B, 70th Ala. Inf., died March 25, '65. 

767. Freeman, P. B., Co. E, 28th Tenn. Inf., died January 13, '65. 
1097. Freeman, W. F., Co. I, 56th Ga. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1487. Freeman, W. P., Co. C, 31st Ga. Inf., died February 25, '65. 
1374. French, J. R., — Ga. Conscript, died February 22, '65. 
1902. French, Willis, Co. F, 38th Ala. Inf., died April 23, '65. 
1813. Fridley. John, Co. A, 22d Va. Inf., died April 3, '65. 
1827. Frier, Newton, Co. C, 4th Fla. Inf., died April 7, '65. 
1460. Frierson, Henr\% Co. G, 9th Tenn. Cav., died February 2y, '65. 
1 196. Frisbee, M. F., Co. C, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
1233. Fry, B. F., Co.- I, 7th Miss. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

195. Fuller, M. R., Co. F, 41st Miss. Inf., died August 8, '64. 

885. Fuller, S., Co. C, 8th Ga. Inf., died January 25, '65. 

682. Furguson, J. K., Co. G, 37th Miss. Inf., died December 30, "64. 

302. Furlgam, James F., Co. I, 30th Ala. Inf., died October 16, '64. 
2009. Futch, Thomas, Co. D, 25th Ga. Inf., died May 17, '65. 
1972. Gable, James, Co. J, Moreland's Ky. Cav., died May 16, '65. 
1063. Gaines, A. N., Co. I, ist Ga. Inf., died February 5, '65. 
1610. Galliway, M., Co. B, i8th Ga. Inf., died March 10, '65. 

882. Gantlin, J., Co. K, 48th Tenn. Inf., died January 25, "65. 
3. Gardner, E. H., 4th Ga., died August 9, '63. 

355. Gardner, S. M., Albany Nitre Works, died October 24, '64. 
1330. Garner, W., Co. D, ist Ky. Cav., died February 18, "65. 
1504. Garrett, D., citizen of Virginia, died March i, '65. 

596. Garrett, Joshua, Co. B, 40th Ga. Inf., died December 10, '64. 

269. Garrett, William, Co. A, 46th Ga. Inf., died September 24, '64. 
1008. Garrison, L., Co. K. 57th Ala. Inf., died February 2, '65. 
1980. Gaston, R. H., Co. E, 4th N. C. Inf., died May 16, '65. 

88. Gaunt, A., citizen of Virginia, died December 26, '63. 
2014. Geddie, D. J.. Co. A, Freeman's N. C. Bat., died June 3, '65. 

230. Gee, James P.. Co. C, 15th Tenn. Cav., died September 7, '64. 

151. Gellam, W. W., 33d Ala. Inf., died May 7, "64- 

422. Germany, H. C, 8th Confederate, died November 7, '64. 

800. Gerrold, George A., citizen of Virginia, died January 18, '65. 



APPENDIX. 359 

No. of Grave. 

1 109. Gibbs, Stephen, Government Employee, died February 8, '65. 

58. Gibson, Andy, Co. G, 3d Conf. Scouts, died November 6, '63. 

1 107. Giddons, M. V., Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

2046. Giger, John H., died June 16, '65. 

1357- Gilfoil, M. S., Co. A, 4th La. Inf., died February 20, "65. 

1295. Gill, J., Co. K, 1st Ga. Inf., died February 16, '65. 

1602. Gill, S. C, Co. D, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 9, '65. 

1683. Gilmer, W. J. N., Co. F, 2d S. C. Inf., died March i, '65. 

1381. Gilmore, Morgan, Co. A, i6th Va. Cav., died February 22, '65. 

914. Gilpin, W. R., Co. A, 13th Va. Inf., died January 27, '65. 

915. Gilsland, F. A., Co. G, ist Ga. Troops, died January 27, '65. 
1388. Gissiner, Adam, Co. B, 3d Va. Inf., died February 22, '65. 

449. Gladden, W. A., Co. E, 15th S. C. Inf., died November 11, '64. 

1309. Gladdish, A. S., 4th Ala. Cav., died February 17, '65. 

2052. Gladstone (or Glasson), J. ]\I., Co. H, ist N. C. Detailed, died June 
21, '65. 

224. Glass, J. M., Co. I, 34th Ala. Inf., died August 28, "64. 

1084. Glover, A. A., Co. C, 6th Ga. Cav., died February 7, '65. 

1868. Goar, S. B., Co. E. 41st Miss. Inf., died April 15, '65. 

1865. Gober, Bradford, — Va. Art., died April 15, '65. 

962. Goble, Adam, Co. A, loth Ky. Cav., died January 29, '65. 

354. Godby, James H, Co. C, 17th Va. Cav., died October 24, '64. 

804. Godwin, Joseph, Co. C, 29th Ga. Inf., died January 19, '65. 

67. Golden, S. C, 20th Bat. Cav., died November 18, '6:^. 

1831. Goldon, A. I., Co. D, 17th Va. Cav., died April 8, '65. 

557. Goldsby, G. W., Co. B, 28th Tenn. Inf., died December 5, '64. 

794. Goldsbury, R. R., Co. D, 13th Ky. Cav., died January 17, '65. 

928. Goldsmith, James, Co. G, 14th N. C. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

1490. Goodhead, J. C, Co. K, 14th Tenn. Inf., died March i, '65. 

1411. Goolsby, John M., Co. K, 28th Ala. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

146. Gordon, H., Co. D, 51st Ga. Inf., died April 27, '64. 

356. Gossett, W. M., Co. B, 22d Ala. Inf., died October 24, '64. 

1 144. Gost, W. H., Co. I, i6th Va. Cav., died February 10, '65. 

1551. Gothard, T. G., Co. A, 30th Ala., died March 5, '65. 

1856. Gowman, C. C, Co. G, 41st Miss. Inf., died April 13, '65. 

1395- Gradick, J., Co. B, Roberts's (Miss.) Cavalry, died February 23, '65. 

523. Graham, W. R., Co. G, 2d Ala. Cav., died November 28, '64. 

1966. Granger, J. W., Co. A, 15th Ky. Cav., died May 14, '65. 

1788. Gray, Alexander, Co. C, ist Fla. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

1772. Gray, William M., Co. A, Tennessee Conscript, died March 27, '65. 

143. Gree, James L., Co. F, 2d Tenn. Cav., died April 23, '64. 

250. Green, Charles, Co. B, 49th Ga. Inf., died September 20, '64. 

1921. Green, John, Co. G, 36th Ala. Inf., died April 26, '65. 

845. Green, John F., Co. H, 28th Ala. Inf., died January 20, '65. 
1312. Green, L., Co. C, — Va. Bat. Cav., died February 17, '65. 

272. Green, Thomas, Co. G, S4th N. C. Inf., died September 28, '64. 

350. Green, W. A., Co. K, i8th Tenn. Inf., died October 23, '64. l' 



360 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1312. Greener, Thomas, Co. C, 27th Va. Cav., died February 15, '65. 
1947. Gregg, John W., Co. H, 8th S. C. Inf., died May 9, '65. 
1407. Gregory, W. F., Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
1321. Griffin, Clement, Co. D. 30th Ala. Inf., died February 18, '65. 

883. Griffin, John L., Co. K, ist Ga. Bat., died January 25, '65. 
52. Griffith, Benjamin, citizen of Virginia, died October 18, '63. 

362. Griffith, H. FI., Co. K, 51st Va. Inf., died October 25, '64. 
1391. Griffith, I., Co. F, 46th Miss. Inf., died February 22, '65. 
1724. Griffith, James, Co. E, 24th S. C. Inf., died March 21, '65. 
1619. Griffith, S., Co. B, 50th Ga. Inf., died March 11, '65. 
79. Grigsby, Lieut. Edwin, Co. C, loth Ky. Inf., died December 9, '63. 

532. Grogg, J. B., Co. H, 63d Va. Inf., died November 29, '64. 
65. Growin, David, citizen of Virginia, died November 16, '63. 

925. Guidney, I. P., Co. A, 30th La. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1728. Gulleht, Asst. Surg. J. W., 15th Ky. Cav., died March 21, '65. 
1854. Gunter, D. W., Co. F, 34th Ala. Inf., died April 12, '65. 

209. Hackett, P., Co. B, 57th Va. Inf., died August 17, '64. Removed. 
1033. Haggerty, James, Co. I, loth Tenn. Inf., died February 3, '65. 
1273. Haines, J. W., Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1&43. Haider, J. B., Co. E, 17th Ala. Inf., died April 14, '65. 
1180. Hale, Thomas, Co. G, citizen of Tennessee, died February 9, '65. 
1529. Haleman, D. P., Co. C, 15th S. C. Inf., died March 3, '65. 
1554. Haleman, M. L., Co. F, 14th Miss. Inf., died March 6, '65. 
1816. Haley, A. J., 36th Miss. Inf., died April 5, '65. 
1003. Hall, A., Co. D, 32d Miss. Inf., died February 2, '65. 
1498. Hall, E., Co. K, 29th Ga. Inf., died March i, '65. 

750. Hall, E. R., Co. D, 4th Ala. Inf., died January 12, '65. 
1506. Hall, J. D., Co. G, 3d Ky. Cav., died March 2, '65. 
1212. Hall, J. W., Co. I, 29th Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

758. Hall, John L., Co. G, 9th Tenn. Cav., died January 12, '65. 
1038. Hall, L. C, Co. E, 42d Tenn. Inf., died February 4, '65. 

948. Hall, Thomas J., Co. A, 2d Ky. Mounted Inf., died January 28, '65. 

966. Hall, Wiley, Co. H, 23d Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1716. Hall, William M., Co. E, 24th Ala. Inf., died March 20, '65. 
1210. Halley, R. H., Co. D, ist Fla. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
1151. Hally, J. O., Co. K, 35th Ala. Inf., died February 10, '65. 
69. Hamby, J. W., Co. K, i6th Ky. Cav., died November 21, '63. 

281. Hamilton, A. D., Co. K, 6th Va. Inf., died October 5, '64. 
1065. Hamilton, E. W., i6th S. C. Inf., died February 6, '65. 

564. Hamilton, J., Co. A, 13th Va. Inf., died December 7, '64. 

565. Hamilton, J. O., Co. E, 4th Ala. Cav., died December 9, '64. 
663. Hamilton, John, Co. K, 60th Va. Inf., died December 25, '64. 

1287. Hamilton, Levi, Co. F, 6th Fla. Inf., died February 16, '65. 

847. Hamilton, W. M., Co. C, 19th S. C Inf., died January 23, '65. 
1251. Hamilton, W. S., Co. C, ist Ga. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

665. Hamlet, William, Co. G, 3Sth Miss. Inf., died December 26, '64. 

937. Hamley, B., Co. G, 39th Ga. Inf., died January 28, '65. 



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No. of Grave. 

2054. Hammert, E. B., Co. F, 25th Va. Cav., died June 29, '65. 
y2,7- Hammock, John, citizen of Virginia, died January 10, '65. 
1644. Hampton, J., Co. K, 53d Ala. Inf., died March 13. '65. 
1342. Hampton, John S., Co. A, 5th Ala. Cav., died February 19, '65. 
1031. Hancock, J. H., Co. C, 2d Miss. Cav., died February 3, '65. 
1519. Hancock, J. M., Co. F, 7th Ala. Cav., died March 3, '65. 

670. Hand, Thomas, Co. H, 58th Ala. Inf., died December 31, '64. 
1365. Hankins, R. M., Co. C, i6th Va. Cav., died February 21, '65. 
1 161. Hanks, W. S., Co. I, 39th Miss. Inf., died February 10, '65. 

921. Hanley, H. C, Co. B, 8th Va. Cav., died January 28, '65. 
1232. Harding, Valentine, Co. A, 6th Ky. Cav., died February 14, '65. 
1817. Hardon, James, Co. B, 4th Fla. Inf., died April 4, '65. 

656. Hardy, John W., Co. I, 40th Ga. Inf., died December 25, '64. 

264. Harlow, Albertus, Co. H, 6th Ga. Cav., died September 20, '64. 
1820. Harmer, John, Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died April 3, '65. 

188. Harmon, H. E., Co. B, 3d S. C. Inf., died July 22, '64. 

299. Harmon, Rush T., Co. F, 8th Va. Inf., died October 11, '64. 

951. Harper, E. W., Co. G, 20th Ala. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1869. Harper, G. W., Co. E, 29th Ala. Inf., died April 15, '65. 

II. Harper, W. H., Co. H, 30th Miss. Inf., died August 24, '63. 
1 178. Harrington, W. G., Co. E, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 11. '65. 

687. Harris, F. P., Co. F, 2d Va. Cav., died January 6, '65. 
1268. Harris, Hezekiah F., Co. A, 19th Tenn. Cav., died February 15, '6> 
1403. Harris, J. C, Co. K, 31st Miss. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
1833. Harris, J. K., North Conscript, died April 8, '65. 

31. Harris, J. T., Co. H, 39th Ala., died October 4, '63. 
1798. Harris, M., Co. D, 32d Ala. Inf., died March 29, '65. 

365. Harris, Martin S., Co. C, 17th Ga. Cav., died October 26, '64. 
iioi. Harris, P. H., Co. E, ist Ala. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

226. Harris, S. R., Co. F, ist Ga. Inf., died August 30, '64. 

587. Harrison, E., Co. F, 31st Ala. Inf., died December 10, '64. 

826. Harrison, J. B., Co. B, 36th Ala. Inf., died January 21, '65. 
1754. Harrison, Thomas, Co. F, 7th Va. Cav., died March 25, '65. 
1463. Harrold, J., Co. F, 19th Tenn. Inf., died February 27, '65. 
1792. Hart, Thomas C, Co. I, 28th Ala. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

288. Hartman, George R, Co. E, 36th Va. Inf., died October 8, '64. 
2062. Hartszoge, Samuel, Co. B, ist Ky. Inf., died June 29, '65. 
1591. Hatch, Thomas, Co. K, 3d Fla. Inf., died March 8, '65. 

448. Hatcher, H. F., Co. A, 17th Va. Cav., died November 11, '64. 
1736. Hatcher, Thomas, Co. E, 20th Ala. Inf., died March 23, '65. 

417. Hathaway, Gus, Co. G, 6th Fla. Inf., died November 6, '64. 

339. Hawkins, W. H., Co. F, ist Ga. Inf., died October 24, '64. 

592. Hays, T. W., Co. C, i8th Miss. Inf., died December 15. '64. 
1850. Hazlewad, W. H., Co. E, ist Ala. Cav., died April 11, '65. 

689. Head, James, Co. D, 19th Ala. Inf., died January 6, '65. 
1444. Hearn, J., Co. I, Font's Battery, died February 26, '65. 

671. Hearn, William H., Co. I, 2d Ga. Cav., died December 31, '64. 



362 , THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1205. Heason, J. N., Co. K, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
1401. Heidelberg, D. W., Co. I, 6th Fla. Inf., died February 23, '65. 

331. Hellon, Franklin, Co. F, 91st Tenn., died October 17, '64. 
, 85J. Helman, Benjamin, Co. F, 54th Ga. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

859. Helvey, H. W., Co. L, 8th Va. Cav., died January 23, '65. 
1392. Hemphill, W. A., Co. F, 30th Bat. Va. Cav., died February 23, '65. 
1685. Henderson, W. F., Co. I, 15th Miss. Inf., died March 17, '65. 

. Hendon, S. Z., Owentown, Ky., died August 10, '64. Sent home. 

16. Hendrick, J., Co. C, 13th Tenn., died September 29, '63. 
26. Hendrick, W. A., Co. E, 2d Tenn., died September 21, '63. 
1 149. Hendrick, Wesley, Co. G, 33d Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65. 

396. Hendricks, A. R., Co. A, 22d Ala. Inf., died November 3, '64. 
1871. Henendon, Wesley, Co. I, S7th Ga. Inf., died April 15, '65. 
1237. Henninger, W. I., Co. I, 13th Bat. Va. Cav., died February 14, '65. 
1812. Hensted, G. W., Co. A, 26th Va. Cav., died April 3, '65. 
1692. Herring, J. B., Co. F, 13th C. S. Cav., died March 18, '65. 

905. Herring, Stephen, Co. D, loth S. C. Inf., died January 27, '65. 

996. Herrington, J., Co. G, 29th Ala. Inf., died February i, "65. 
1418. Heron, Asher, Co. K, loth Ky. Cav., died February 24, '65. 
1761. Herron, W. H., Co. K, 13th Ky., Cav., died March 25, '65. 
1598. Hester, T. J., Co. C, 65th Ga. Inf., died March 8, '65. 

514. Hicks, A. J., Co. C, 34th Va. Cav., died December 6, '64. 
1628. Hicks (or Hickox), Benj., Co. G, 3d Miss. Cav., died March 12, '65. 
1404. Hicks, D. H., Co. C, I2th Ky. Cav., died February 23, '65. 
1 1 19. Hicks, G. S., Co. K, ist Ga. State Troops, died February 8, '65. 

946. Hicks, Samuel S., Co. C, 43d Bat. Va. Cav., died January 29, '65. 
2051. 'Hicks, W. H., Co. H, 23d Ala. Inf., died June 21, '65. 
1727. Hicks, William B., laborer, died March 21, '65. 

581. Hides, P. E., Co. I, 5th Ga. Cav., died December 10, '64. 
1390. Hig'den, P. W., Co. F, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 22, '65. 
84. Hill, Alton, 1st Tenn. Cav., died December 18, '63. 

653. Hill, B. H., Co. D, 36th Ala. Inf., died December 23, '64. 

434. Hill, F., Co. D, 30th Ga. Bat., died November 8, '64. 
1048. Hill, J. C, Co. H, 1st Ga. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

711. Hill, J. H., Co. D, 1st Tenn. Inf., died January 6, '65. 
1654. Hill, J. M., Co. B, 19th Ala. Inf., died March 14, '65. 
1292. Hill, J. W., Co. B, 36th Ala. Inf., died February 16, '65. 

453. Hill, Thomas, Co. B, 6th Fla. Inf., died November 12, '64. 

949. Hill, Thomas M., Co. B, loth Ky. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1955. Hill, William, Co. D, 14th Va. Cav., died May 10, '65. 
1 1 14. Himbra, S. G., Co. K, ist Ga. State Troops, died February 8, '65. 

497. Himes, W. H., Co. I, 41st Ga. Inf., died November 20, '64. 
1634. Hincly, Benjamin F., Co. K, 13th Ga. Inf., died March 12, '65. 
1769. Hobbs, Elisha, Co. B, loth Ky. Cav., died March 26, '6s 

248. Hobbs, R. C, Co. E, 38th Ala. Inf., died September 16, '64. 
1684. Hocter, Benjamin, Co. F, 49th Ala. Inf., died March 17, '65. 

901. Hodge, William, Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died January 26, '65. 



APPENDIX. 363 

No. of Grave. 

1627. Hodges, E. M., Co. D, ist C. S. Inf., died March 12, '65. 
1942. Hoffman, D. J., Co. G, i8th Ala. Inf., died May 13, '65. 

796. Hofifman, Jacob. Co. F, 30th Bat. Va. Cav., died January 17, '65. 
1662. Hoffman, Joel, Co. B, 37th Miss. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

742. Hoffmaster, Louis, Co. B, 36th Va. Inf., died January 11, '65. 

199. Hogan, J. C, Co. F, 27th Bat. Va. Cav., died August 13, '64. 

159. Holbrooks, J., Co. K, 7th Ala. Cav., died May 12, "64. 
1739. Holcomb, A. W., Co. B, nth Va. Inf., died March 23, "65. 
1202. Holden, James, Co. F, 52d Ga. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
1796. Holden, James ]\I., Co. D, Moreland's Cavalry, died March 25, '65. 

220. Hollis, D., Co. I, 38th Ala. Cav., died August 27, '64. 
2042. Hollowey, J. S., Co. C, 37th Ga. Inf., died June 15, '65. 
1092. Holman, J. C, Co. C, 7th Ky. Cav., died February 6, '65. 

978. Holmes, David, Co. E, 33d Miss. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

235. Holmes, M., ist Ga. State Troops, died September 9, '64. 
1843. Holston, Hiram, Co. B, 4th La. Inf., died April 11, '65. 
1436. Holton, L., Co. G, 7th Miss. Inf., died February 25, '65. 
1481. Homberger, J., Co. C, 2d Ark. Cav., died Februarj^ 28. '65. 
1 170. Honeberger, G., Co. B, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 10, '65. 
1944. Hood, F. M., Co. G, S4th Ala. Inf., died May 14, '65. 

508. Hook, Curtis, Co. D, 59th Ga. Inf., died November 24, '64. Removed. 
1755. Hooker, J., Co. K, 19th Va. Cav., died March 25, '65. 

203. Hoover, A. S., 19th Va. Inf., died August 14, "64. 

878. Hopkins, Ewing, Co. D, 12th Tenn. Inf., died January 25, '65. 
1 154. Hopkins, Robert B., Co. K, Sth Tenn. Cav., died February 11, '65. 
1585. Horton, H., citizen of Alabama, died March 6, '65. 
1707. Horton, James H., Co. G, 54th Tenn. Inf., died March 18, '65. 

I. Horton, S., 4th Ala., died August 4, '63. 
1524. Horton, T. B., Conscript, died March 3, '65. 
1 174. Horton, T. S., Co. I, 15th Miss. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

873. House, William, Co. D, 4th Tenn. Inf., died January 25, '65. 
1 187. Houston, W. S., Co. H, ist Ga. Inf., died February 11, '65. 
1226. Houton, E. L., Co. B, 12th La. Cav., died February 13, '65. 
1726. Howard, Lewis L., Co. A, 26th Va. Cav., died IVIarch 20, '65 

485. Howell, R. H., Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died November 19, '64. 

420. Howery, W. J., Co. B, 41st Va. Cav., died November 7, '64. 

780. Hoyle, J. P., Co. F, 54th N. C. Inf., died January 16, "65. 

1870. Hubbard, John, Co. E, 33d Miss. Inf., died April 15, '65. 

886. Hudleson, David. Co. A, 7th Ala. Cav., died January 25, '65. 

1810. Hudson, E. W., Co. E, 36th Ga. Inf., died April 3, '65. 

846. Hudson, H. L., Co. C, i8th Tenn. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

1 129. Hudson, W. D., Co. I, 27th Miss. Inf., died February 8, '65. 
307. Huesley, A. S., Co. B, 4Sth Va. Cav., died Nov. 23, '64. Removed. 
641. Huff, Amos, Co. F, 4th Ala. Cav., died December 23, '64. 

1888. Huff, J. B., Co. E, i8th Ala. Inf., died April 18, '65. 

1649. Huff, J. G., Co. D, 36th Va. Cav., died March 14, '65. 

1060. Huff, J. W., Co. H, 42d Ga. Inf., died February 5, '65. 



364 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

330. Huffaker, J. D., Co. G, 36th La. Inf., died October 17, '64. 

85. Huffman, Henry, Co. C, 20th Va. Bat, died December 19, '63. Shot. 

803. Hughes, A. R., Co. K, ist Miss. Inf., died January 19, '65. 

407. Hughes, C, Co. H, i6th Va. Inf., died November 5, '64. 

1015. Hughes, C. J., Co. D, 5th Miss. Cav., died February 3, '65. 

621. Hughes, D. A., Co. E, Thomas's N. C. Legion, died December 21, '64. 

1786. Hughes, George W., Co. C, 8th Ky. Cav., died March 29, '65. 

1903. Hughes, James J., Co. K, ist Miss. Inf., died April 22,, '65. 

1950. Hughes, J. A., Co. H, 23d Ala. Inf., died May 10, '65. 

880. Hughes, Joel, Co. F, 2d Tenn. Cav., died January 25, '65. 

1 197. Hughes, W. A., Co. C, 22d Va. Cav., died February 12, '65. 

1658. Hughes, William, Co. E, 29th Ala. Inf., died INIarch 14, '65. 
869. Hughes, William D., Co. D, 31st Ala. Inf., died January 25, '65. 

1583. Huie (or Hail), A. A., Co. E, 30th Ga. Inf., died March 7, '65. 

121 1. Hull, E., Co. B, 15th Miss. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

455. Humphries, S., Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died November 12, '64. 

669. Hundley, I. F., Co. E, 36th Va. Cav., died December 27, '64. 

1264. Hunt, Davis, Co. F, 4th Fla. Inf., died February 15. '65. 

936. Hunt, H. F., Co. B, 22d Va. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

1249. Hunt, W. H., Co. D, 30th Miss. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

.384. Hunter, A. A., Co. D, 28th Miss. Cav., died October 30, '64. 

148. Hurlburt, Cole, citizen of Virginia, died May 3, '64. 

1 155. Hurt, J. C, Co. D, 19th Ga. Inf., died February 9, '65. 

1328. Hutchcourt, James, Co. A, 4th Miss. Inf., died February 18, '65. 

1041. Hutchins, J. D., Co. E, 17th Ala. Inf., died February 4, '65. 

1 108. Hysch, E., Woodward's Battery, died February 8, '65. 

1659. Ingraham, B., Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died March 14, '65. 
1474. Ingram. I. F., Co. C, 7th Ala. Cav., died February 26, '65. 

606. Irwin, J. C, Co. B, 3d Fla. Inf., died December 12, '64. 
1 140. Irwin, William, Co. K, 9th Ark. Inf., died February 10, '65. 

187. Isaac, Norman, Co. D, 37th Va. Cav., died July 22, '64. 

309. Isen, Charles, Co. K, loth Ky. Cav., died October 13, '64. 

911. Ivers, J. E., Co. C, i8th Tenn. Inf., died January 27, '65. 

856. Jacks, James, Co. D, S4th Ala. Inf., died January 23, '65. 
1451. Jackson, A., Co. C, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 26, '65. 
1423. Jackson, H. I., Co. F, 5th Ga. Inf., died February 24, '65. 
1788. Jackson, Henry, Co. I, 4th Miss. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

349. Jackson, J., Co. K, 8th S. C. Inf., died October 21, '64. 
1596. Jackson, J. E., Co. B, 38th Ala. Inf., died March 9, '65. 
1588. Jackson, J. H., Co. K, 5th Miss. Inf., died March 7, '65. 
1087. Jackson, John T., Co. C, 66th Ga. Inf., died February 6, '65. 

368. Jackson, William, Co. I, 5th Regt., , died October 27, '64. 

2057. Jacob, W. F., died July 17, '65. 

1399- James, G., Co. G, 19th La. Inf., died February 23, '65. 

612. James, W. F., Co. F, ist Tenn. Cav., died December 13, '64. 
1560. Janney, W. B., Co. D, 6th Va. Cav., died March 5, '65. 

444. Jarett, Abraham, Co. E, 22d Va. Inf., died November 10, '64. 



APPENDIX. 365 

No. of Grave. 

684. Jarold, J. D., 33d Tenn. Inf., died December 30, '64. 

800. Jarrett, George, Co. C, citizen of Georgia, died January 18, '65. 

468. Jarves, Capt. E. J., Co. A, 46th Va. Cav., died November 15, '64. 
1303. Jenkins, A. A., Co. B, 5th Miss. Cav., died Februar\' 11, '65. 
1588. Jenkins, G., Co. I, 55th Ala. Inf., died March 3, '65. 

695. Jenkins, H. W., Co. I, 6sth Ga. Inf., died January 3, '65. 
1809. Jenkins, John, Co. F, 45th Ga. Inf., died April 3, '65. 
1080. Jenkins, William, Co. I, SSth Ala. Inf., died February 5, '65. 
1 102. Jett, S. E., Co. G, 1st Miss. Art., died February 8, '65. 

189. Jetton, R., — Ala. Cav., died July 23, '64. 
1882. Jobe, W. M., Co. F, 31st Miss Inf., died April 17, '65. 
1166. Johns, L. I., Co. I, 1st Fla. Cav., died February 10, '65. 

827. Johnson, A. J., Co. B, 22d Va. Cav., died January 22, '65. 
1543- Johnson, A. J., Co. K, 24th Ala. Inf., died March 4, '65. 
1675. Johnson, C. A., Co. H, 42d Ala. Inf., died March 16, '65. 

657. Johnson, Elijah, Co. D, 8th Tenn. Cav., died December 25, '64. 
1 122. Johnson, G. M., Co. K, 40th Ga. Inf., died February 2, '65. 
1737- Johnson, James L., Co. H, 42d Ga. Inf., died March 22,, '65. 
181 1. Johnson, Moses, Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died April 4, '65. 
1677. Johnson, R. M., Co. E, 20th Va. Cav., died March 16, '65. 
1629. Johnson, S. C, Co. H, 4th Fla. Inf., died March 12, '65. 

619. Johnson, S. W., Co. C, 8th Va. Cav., died December 15, '64. 

105. Johnson, Samuel, Co. A, 44th Miss. Inf., died February, '64. 

676. Johnson, Thomas, Co. A, 40th Ala. Inf., died December 28, '64. 
1771. Johnson, T. H., Co. C, 54th Ala. Inf., died March 27, '65. 

551. Johnston, B. R., Co. F, 36th Ala. Inf., died December 4, '64. 
694. Johnston, Franklin, citizen of Virginia, died January 2, '65. 
746. Johnston, H. A., Co. C, 57th Ala. Inf., died January 11, '65. 
441. Jones, David, Co. C. 54th Va. Inf., died November 9, '64. 
825. Jones, Edwin, Co. B, 52d Tenn. Inf., died January 21, '65. 
980. Jones, G., Co. F, i8th Ala. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

460. Jones, J., Co. C, ist Miss. Inf., died November 13, '64. 

994. Jones, John, Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died February i, "65. 

904. Jones, John M., Co. A, 12th Va. Cav., died January 27, '65. 

1 341. Jones, Joseph, Co. H, 23d Ala. Inf., died February 19, '65. 

941. Jones, M. J., Co. A, 53d Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

1448. Jones, R. H., Co. A, 37th Miss. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

1051. Jones, R. J., Co. C, loth Ala. Cav., died February 5, '65. 

1 1 16. Jones, Squire, East Tenn. Reserve, died February 8, '65. 

509. Jones, Stephen, Co. B, ist Fla. Cav., died November 23, '64. 

1507- Jones, W. A., Co. G, ist Ga. State Troops, died March 2, '65. 

1438. Jones, W. E., Co. H, 20th Va. Cav., died February 25, '65. 

552. Jones, W. F., Co. I, ist Ga. Inf., died December 4, '64. 
1664. Jorda, A., Co. F, 30th La. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

725. Jordon, W. R.. Co. H, 29th Tenn. Inf., died January, '65. 
1878. Jumverson, J., Co. G, 21st Va. Cav., died April 16, '65. 
2017. Kay, John, Co. C, Moreland's Miss. Cav., died June 3, '65. 



366 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

376. Keadon, William, Co. D, i7tli Va. Cav., died October 28, '64. 

398. Keaton, W. J., Co. D, 17th Va. Cav., died November 3, '64. 

481. Keenea, James M., Co. E, 14th N. C. Inf., died November 18, '64. 

1665. Keister, Col., Co. D, 34th Miss. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

244. Keith, W. C, Co. I, 7th Ala. Cav., died September 15, '64. 

1852. Keleclofy, H. H., Co. H, 56th Ga. Inf., died April 7, '65. 

896. Kelley, James M., Co. G, 57th Ala. Inf., died January 25, '65. 

1715. Kelly, B. S., Co. A, 46th Ala. Inf., died March 20, '65. 

1443. Kelly, G., Co. E, ist Fla. Cav., died February 25, '65. 

959. Kelly, Jacob, Co. G, 57th Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

820. Kelly, T. L., Co. G, 5th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

1079. Kelly, W. P., Co. H, 22d Ala. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

5. Kelly, William, Co. I, 4th Ala. , died August 15, '64. 

1693. Kemp, J. L., Co. C, ist Ky. Cav., died March 18, '65. 

1826. Kemp, M. A., Co. I, i6th Tenn. Inf., died April 7, '65. 

603. Kenedy, Charles, Co. B, 22d Va. Cav., died December 12, '64. 

761. Kenneday, T. N., Co. F, 22d Va. Cav., died January 12, '65. 

825. Kennedy, J. C, Co. D, 28th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

1241. Kennedy, W., Co. C, 37th Ga. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

1633. Kenned}', W. J., Asst. Enroller's Office, died March 12, '65. 

232. Kenney, J., Conscript of Virginia, died September 3, '64. 

957. Kenney, James, Co. C, ist La. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

1599. Kent, F., Co. E, 15th Miss. Inf., died March i, '65. 

1652. Kersy, J. G., Co. A, 23d Ala. Inf., died March 14, '65. 

1605. Kesse, E. G., Co. B, 20th Miss. , died March 9, '65. 

193. Kettle, Benjamin, citizen of Virginia, died August 5, '64. 

260. Keys, H., Co. B, 40th Ga. Inf., died September 20, '64. 

1045. Kight, Henry, Co. K, 58th Ala. Inf., died February 4, '65. 

1265. Kiken, A. A., Co. F, 40th Ga. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

1075. Kincaid, L. M., Co. B, 55th Tenn. Cav., died February 6, '65. 

'^?>72i- King, J. L., Co. G, 1st Conf. Inf., died February 22, '65. 

278. King, Newton, Co. C, 37th Bat. Va. Cav., died October 4, '64. 

1320. King, S., Co. B, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 17, '65. 

807. King, Samuel, Co. G, 8th Tenn. Cav., died January 19, "65. 

725. King, William, Co. D, 34th Ga. Inf., died January 9, '65. 

520. Kirk, James, citizen of Georgia, died November 26, '64. 

1763. Kirk, John N., Co. B, 38th Ala. Inf., died March 27, '65. 

1520. Kitchen, C. J., Co. I, 23d Ala. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

597. Klutts, J. A. C, citizen of Georgia, died December 11, '64. 

1531. Knole, William, Co. D, 63d Va. Inf., died March i, '65. 

421. Knoles, D. G., Co. F, 36th Ala. Inf., died November 7, '64. 

426. Knotts, John G., Co. F, 13th Tenn. Cav., died November 7, '64. 

1976. Knowls, S. v., Co. F, 23d Ala. Inf., died May 16, '65. 

721. Knox, John, Co. H, 3d Ga. Cav., died January 8, '65. 

1656. Koon, G. E.. Co. I, isth S. C. Inf., died March 14. '65. 

600. Koon, John H., Co. G, 32d Ala. Inf., died December 11, '64. 

819. Kuhn, John A., Co. A, 2d Md. Cav., died January 20, '65. 



APPENDIX. 367 

,No. of Grave. 

638. Lackey, E., Co. G, 21st Va. Cav., died December 20, '64. 

971. Lacroy, George, Co. D, 46tli Ala. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

964. Lagrove, R. W., Co. K, 41st Miss. Inf., died January 30, '65. 
1239. Lake, Elisha, Co. G, 42d Ga. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
1709. Lake, John R., Co. G, 62d Ala. Inf., died March 18, '65. 
2047. Lamb, Alex, Co. B, 4th N. C. Reserves, died June 19, '65. 

250. Lamb, I. J., Co. E, ist Ga. Inf., died September 17, '64. 

651. Lamb, W. M., Co. G, 35th Miss. Inf., died December 22, '64. 

585. Lamber, A. L., Co. A, isth Tenn. Cav., died December 9, '64. 
1571. Lancaster, A. G., Co. H, 29tli Ga. Inf., died March 10, '65. 
1096. Landers, J. M., Co. C, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 7, '65. 

924. Lane, G. N., Co. B, 5th Ga. Cav., died January 28. '65. 

219. Lang. I. F., Co. K, 30th Ga. Inf., died August 26, '64. 
1 138. Langhorn, John, Co. A, 57th Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1484. Lanson, I. H., Co. A, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 28, '65. 

403. Lap rude, E. S., Co. G, ist Ga. Inf., died November 4, '64. 

112. Larimore, George, died February, '64. 

531. Lark, James R., Co. C, 4th La. Inf., died November 28, '64. 

1419. Lasiter, A. W., Co. C, 17th Miss. Inf., died February 24. '65. 
990. Lassiter, Henry, Co. E, ist Ga. State Troops, died February r, '65. 
838. Lassiter, W., Co. G, 58th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

712. Lassiter, Wiley B, Co. E, ist Fla. Inf., died January 5, '65. 
1436. Latimer, T., Co. I, 2d Tenn. Cav., died February 25, '65. 
74. Latimer, T. J., Merry's Tenn. Bat., died November 28, '63. 

1420. Lavergne, W. J., Co. G, 7th Fla. Inf., died February 24, '65. 
1242. Law, J., Co. H, 22d Va. Cav., died February 14, '65. 

335. Lawer, Strethers, Co. F, 34th Ga. Inf., died October 18, '64. 
1973. Lawson, J. S., Co. A, 4th Tenn. Cav., died May 16, '65. 
1703. Lease, D. J.. Co. C, iSth S. C. Inf., died March 18, '65. 
1508. Lease, G. W., Co. F, nth Va. Cav., died March 2, '65. 
1990. Leavall, John, Co. G, 28th Miss. Cav., died May 21, '65. 
1429. Leavall, W. I., Co. K, ist Ga. Inf., died February 28, '65. 
1708. Ledbeater, George, Co. H, 31st Ala. Inf., died March 19. '65. 

185. Ledbetter, G., Co. I, 18th Tenn. , died July 20, '64. 

500. Lee, J. W., Co. G, i6th Ala. Inf., died November 20. '64. 

923. Lee, Jesse, Co. E, 19th Ala. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1904. Lee, John, Co. F, 41st Ala. Inf., died April 23, '65. 

no. Lee, K., died February, '64. 
1535. Lee, Loren, Co. I, 29th Ala. Inf., died March 4, '65. 

100. Lee, M. P., Co. A, 2d Tenn. Cav., died January 10, '64. 

550. Lee, P. W., Co. A, 4th La. Inf., died December 4, '64. 

13. Lee, R. N., citizen of Kentucky, died August 25, '63. Removed. 
1491. Lee, R. O., Co. F, 54th N. C. Inf., died March i, '65. 

752. Lee, Randolph, Co. H, 24th Tex. Cav., died January 12, '65. 

2053. Lee, Thomas, Co. K, 45th Ala. , died June 21, '65. 

90. Lee, W. P., 3d S. C. Cav., died January 10, '64. 
i860. Leech, John, Co. B, 43d Miss. Inf., died April 13. '65. 



368 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

863. Legg, Franklin, Co. B, 36th Bat. Va. Cav., died January 24, '65. 

106. Lemaster, Merida, Co. C, 5th Ky. Inf., died February, '64. 
1359. Lemaster, W., Co. C, 5th Ky. Inf., died February 20, '65. 
1305. Lemax, R., Co. D, 39th Ala. Inf., died February 17, "65. 
23. Lemly, Samuel, Co. A, igtli Va. Cav., died September 17, '63. 

400. Lenebaugh, J. F., Co. H, 22d Ala. Inf., died November 4, '64. 
1313. Leonard, C, Co. C, 8th Va. Cav., died February 14, '65. 
1756. Leonard, John, Co. B, loth Ala. Inf., died March 25, '65. 
1143. Leonard, Thomas J., Co. C, 13th Bat. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
2044. Lester, E. W., Co. A, S7th Ala. Inf., died June 15, '65. 
1945. Lester, G. R., Co. A, 51st Ala. Cav., died May 9, '65. 

549. Lester, John, Co. E, ist Ga. Cav., died December 5, '64. 

976. Lester, J. G., Co. A, 30th Ga. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

510. Lester, J. W., Co. A, 23d Tenn. Inf., died November 24, '64. 
480. Lester, Lewis, Co. F, i6th Ga. Cav., died November 17, '64. 

1344. Lester, M. W., Co. B, 4th Ga. Inf., died February 19, '65. 

225. Lestinger, W. H., Co. K, 29th Ga. Inf., died August 30, '64. 

186. Letterel, James, 27th Bat. Va. Cav., died July 22, '64. 

939. Lewis, K. J., 3d Conf. Cav., died January 29, '65. 
1027. Lewis, T. E., Co. G, 6th Miss. Inf., died February' 12, '65. 

190. Lichty, G. W., Co. H, 4th Ga. Cav., died October 8, '64. 

464, Lightfoot, J. M., Co. E, 22d Ga. Inf., died November 14, '64. 
1072. Linder, Thomas F., Co. D, 5th Ga. Cav., died February 6, '65. 

511. Lindle}', T. P., Co. F, ist Conf. Inf., died November 24, '64. 
1620. Lindsey, W. H., Co. I, 26th Ala. Inf., died March 11, '65. 
2013. Litiker, Michael, N. C. Troops, died June 6, '65. 

312. Lively, Robert, Co. B, i6th La. Inf., died October 14, '64. 
1296. Locker, W. N., Co. A, ist Md. Cav., died February 16, '65. 
1526. Lockett, D. H., Co. A, 3d Ky. Cav., died March 3, '65. 

699. Lockhart, Benjamin, Co. C, i6th Va. Cav., died January 3, '65. 
1256. Lockwood, W. T., Co. B, ist Ark. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1421. Lofton, W. J., Co. K, 30th Ga. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

412. Logan, G. W., Co. D, 2d Ky. Cav., died November 5, '64. 

8. Logan, S. C, Co. K, — Ky. Cav., died August 22, '63. Removed. 
1959. Long, J. J., Co. D, 30th Ga. Inf., died May 12, '65. 
1055. Long, Noah, Co. B, 34th Ala. Inf., died February 5, '65. 
1367. Looney, I. J., Co. B, 34th Ala. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

963. Loop, Elijah, Co. F, ist Tenn. Cav., died January 29, '65. 
1975. Lovitt, G. W., Co. K, S3d Ga. Inf., died May 16, '65. 
1546. Lucas, H. A., Roddy's Escort, died March 5, '65. 

594. Ludlow, W. J., Co. D, i6th La. Inf., died December 10, '64. 
1651. Luker, Allen, Co. K, 32d Ala. Inf.. died March 14, '65. 

614. Lumans, G. L., Co. A, 60th Va. Inf., died December 13, '64. 
1799. Lynch, J. N. P., Co. H, 21st Tenn. Inf., died March 30, '65. 

654. Lynn, A. J., Co. A, Stuart's Cavalry, died December 23, '64. 
1989. Lyon, Nicholas, Co. G, 4th Ky. Cav., died May 20, '65. 
1711. Lytham, J. H., Co. B, 31st Miss. Inf., died March 19, '65. 



APPENDIX. i6c) 

.'Jo. of Grave. 

774. Maberry, James, died January 14, '65. 

1770. Mabery, Thomas T., Co. I, gth Tenn. Cav., died March 2-], '65. 
2054. Mackey, Nathaniel, died June 2"], '65. 

1789. Mackey, WilHam, Co. F, 31st Ala. Inf., died March 30, '65. 
1322. Madox, W. J., Co. I, 30th Ga. Inf., died February 18, '65. 
1760. Mafors, George W., died March 26, '65. ^ ,; 

1459. Maid, J., Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 2"], "65. 
1879. Malone, G. W., Co. G, 13th Tenn. Inf., died April 17, '65. 

570. Malone, John T., Co. I, 22d Ala. Cav., died December 7. '64. 

171. Maning, W. C, Co. E, ist Ky. Cav., died May 31, '64. 
1319. Mann, Henry, Co. C, 7th Ala. Cav., died February 17, '65. 

126. Marcum, W., Smith's Virginia Rangers, died March, '64. 
1920. Marian, James K., Co. I, 44th Miss. Inf., died April 26, '65. 
1707. Markham, I., Co. D, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 17, '65. 
1236. Marlin, C. R., Co. B, 13th La. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

554. Marlin, O. C, Co. F, 4th Ala. Cav., died December 5, '64. 
1 163. Marshall, S. J., 7th Miss. Inf., died February 10, '65. 

630. Marshall, W. S., Co. I, 8th INIiss. Inf., died December 18, '64. 
2056. Martin, B., Co. B, Baumbgarnor's Batter}-, died June 2"], '65. 
1176. Martin, C. O., Co. F, ist Ala. Inf., died February 11, "65. 
1749. Martin, Isaac, Co. D, 13th Ky. Cav.. died March 25, '65. 

Zll- Martin, J. A., Co. C, 2d Ga. Cav., died October 28, '64. 
70. Martin, J. C, Co. B, 65th N. C. , died November 2^, '63. 

345. Martin, J. E., Co. K, 36th Va. Inf., died October 22, '64. 

308. Martin, Thomas, Co. B, 37th Va. Inf., died October 13, '64. 

981. Martin, Zachariah, Co. F, 45th Ala. Inf., died January 31, '65. 

479- ^lash, J. T. F., Co. C, 8th S. C. Inf., died November 16. '64. 
1667. Mason, J., Co. H, 37th Tenn. Inf., died March 15, '65. 
1848. Masters. W. L., Co. F, loth Ala. Inf., died April 4, '65. 
2039. Mathews, E. B., Co. I. 41st Ga. Inf., died June 12, '65. 
I2g8. Mathews. G. W., Co. A, 4th Fla. Inf.. died February 15. '65. 
1 148. Matthews, A. F., Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1 175. Matthews, E., Co. K, 29th Ga. Inf.. died February 11, '65. 

694. Maxwell, William, Co. I, ist Ga. Inf., died January 3, '65. 
1700. May, R. S., Co. E, 19th Va. Cav., died March 18, '65. 
12. McAllister, J. C, unknown, died August 24. '63. 

414. McAllister. W. H., Co. E. 34th Va. Cav., died November 6, '64. 

477. McArdy, D. A., Co. F, ist Ga. Inf.. died November 16. '64. 

2060. McCall, J. B.. Co. E, 29th Ga. . died July 30, '65. 

130T. McCarter, C. I., Co. B. ist Ga. Troops, died February 16, '65. 

475. McCarter, J. M.. Co. H. ist Ga. Inf., died November 16, "64. 
1909. McCarty, Brien, Co. E. 7th Miss. Inf., died April 23, '65. 

502. McCarty, W. H., Co. E, 3d Ky. Inf., died November 21, '64. 

124. McCarver, W. D., Co. I. 59th Tenn. Inf., died March, '64. 

537. McClarty. G. W.. Co. C, 30th Ga. Inf., died December i. '64. 
1424. McCoy. Charles, Co. E. 8th S. C. Inf., died February 25, '65. 

748. McCoy. Davis. Co. A. 57th Ala. Inf.. died January 11, "65. 
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370 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Xo. of Grave. 

1573. McCoy, H. (or T. C), Co. D, 26th Va. Inf., died March 6, "65. 

1530. McCoy, W. F., Moreland's Cavalry, died March 2, '65. 

1371. McCracken, W., Co. B, loth S. C. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

1539. McCrary, J. M., Co. E, 65th Ala. Inf., died March 4, '65. 

1774. McCreary, Joseph F., Co. H, i8th Tenn. Cav., died March 28, '65. 

1 1 12. McCurdy, J. J., Co. F, ist Conf. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

566. McDaniel, A. W., Co. A, 5th Ala. Cav., died December 7, '64. 

887. McDaniel, J. L., Co. A, 38th Tenn. Inf., died January 26, '65. 

1315. McDaws, T. B., Co. E, 3d Ky. Cav., died February 17, '65. 
965. McDonald, R., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died January 30, '65. 

1702. McDonald, Richard, Co. D, 29th Miss. Inf., died March 18, '65. 
1 159. McElrath, J., Co. B, S4th N. C. Inf., died February 10, '65. 
1722. McElroy, W. M., Co. F, 46th Miss. Inf., died March 20, '65. 
1561. McGaughey, A. I., Co. C, 7th Ala. Cav., died March 5, '65. 
1452. McGhee, A. O., Co. I, 46th Ga. Inf., died February 26, '65. 
1468. McGhee, Lynn, Co. K, 38th Ala. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

744. McGilbury, David, Co. B, 38th Ala. Inf., died January 11, '65. 

726. McGinnis, Isaac B., Co. E, 34th Ga. Inf., died January 9, "65. 

. McGlothen, J. P., Co. A, 29th Ga. Inf., died March 6, '65. 

1478. McGowen, J. W., Co. I, 2Sth Ga. Inf., died February 28, '65. 

945. McGowin, G. W., Co. E, 54th Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1636. McGuarity. A. L., Co. H, 24th S. C. Inf., died March 11, '65. 
191 1. McGuire, H. C, Co. D, 46th Ala. Inf., died April 24, '65. 

228. Mcintosh, , Conscript, N. C, died September 3, '64. 

1899. Mcintosh, James, Co. B, 43d Va. Inf., died April 22, '65. 
1617. McKean, John, Co. A, 3d Miss. Inf., died March 11, '65. 

525. McKenney, James, Co. F, 20th Va. Cav., died November 27, '64. 

992. McKennie, R., Co. E, 29th Ga. Inf., died February i, '65. 

970. McKenzie, John, Co. H, 41st Miss. Inf., died January 30, "65. 
1873. McKey, D. A., Co. A, 46th Miss. Inf., died April 15, '65. 
1047. McKie, J. P., Co. F, 28th Tenn. Inf., died February 8, '65. 
1713. McKowan, J. W., Co. E, 30th Ga. Inf., died March 20, '65. 
1780. McLain, L., Co. D, ist Fla. Inf., died March 30, '65. 
1337. McLaughlin, E., Co. I, 36th Ala. Inf., died February 18, '65. 
1053. McLaughlin. T. J.. Co. B, 51st Va. Inf., died February 5, '65. 

572. McMahon, E. L., Co. A, 31st Miss. Inf., died December 7. '64. 

586. McMurry, J. B., Co. B, ist Ga. State Troops, died December 9, '64. 

1316. McNeise, W. B., Co. I. 8th Miss. Inf., died February 17, '65. 
991. McPherson. W., Co. G, 39th Miss. Inf., died February i. '65. 
780. McQueen, T. S.. ist Ga. Inf.. died January 15, '65. 

363. McRoe, J. C, Co. A, 3d Ark. Inf., died October 26, '64. 

247. McWhorter, S. W.. Co. C, ist Ga. Inf., died September 16, '64. 

1 190. McWright, J. J., Co. I, 44th Ala. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

1380. Meade, John, Co. H, 34th Ga. Inf., died February 22, '65. 

1734. Meadow, Joseph, Co. C, 3d Ky. Inf., died March 22, '65. 

i960. Meadows, Joshua B., Co. B, Derrick's Bat. Inf., died May 12, '65. 

521. Mears, J. M., Co. A, Sth Ga. Cav.. died November 25, '64. 



APPENDIX. 371 

No. of Grave. 

425. Medows, John, Co. G, 21st N. C. Inf., died November 7, '64. 
1220. Meghar, H. C, Co. A, i8th Ala. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

378. Mells, Albert, Co. H, 7th Fla. Inf., died October 29, '64. 

293. Menar, Thomas, Co. K, nth Tenn. Inf., died October 19, '64. 

208. Meredith, W., Co. C, ist Ga. Inf., died August 17, '64. 

635. Merrill, Joseph H., Co. G, 54th Ala. Inf., died December 19, '64. 
1695. Messengale, J., Co. B, 37th Va. Cav., died March 17, '65. 

152. Mester, David, Co. D, 34th Bat. Cav., died May 9, "64. 

791. Metcalf, J. W., Co. I, 54th N. C. Inf., died January 17, '65. 

251. Mevers, Joseph. Co. H, 21st Va. Cav., died September 17, "64. 

715. Middlebrook, J. P., Co. G, 53d Ala. Cav., died January 6, '65. 

938. Miers, William. Co. A, 35th Ala. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1422. Mige, D., Co. E, 25th Ala. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

1016. Mikeal, J.. Co. G, 58th N. C. Inf., died February 3, "65. 
1067. Miles, H. I., Co. C, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 6, "65. 
1908. Miller, H. P., Co. C, 35th T^Iiss. Inf.. died April 23, '65. 
2014. Miller, J. J., Co. F, 39th Miss. Inf., died June 2, '65. 

727. Miller, James A., Co. B, 42d Ga. Inf., died January 9, '65. 

940. Miller, James F., Co. F, 8th Bat. Ga. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

139. Miller, T. D., citizen of Louisiana, died April 15, '64. 
1199. Miller, W. H., Co. I, i8th Ala. Inf.. died February 12, '65. 
1864. Miller, W. N., Co. D, 7th Miss. Bat. Inf., died April 15, '65. 
1548. Mills, W. A., Co. F, I2th La. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

528. Miner, S. J.. Co. E. 3d Ala. Cav., died November 28. '64. 

1017. Mitchell, D. C. Co. C, 8th Bat. Ga. Inf.. died February 3. "65. 
1618. Mitchell, J., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav.. died March 11, "65. 

68. Mitchell, J. B.. Co. D, 29th Va. , died November 18, '63. 

144. Mitchell, J. H.. Co. D, ist La. Cav., died April 25. '64. 
2027. Mitchell. J. W.. Co. E, 5th Ala. Cav.. died June 5. '65. 
1026. Mitchell, William, Co. D, ssth N. C. Inf., died February 7, '65. 
1957- Mixson, W. A., Co. A. 44th Ky. Cav.. died May 10, '65. 

loi. Mixton, Capt. S. R., Co. H, 13th Miss. Inf., died January 18. '64. 

975. Moates, W., Co. I, 62d Va. Inf.. died January 31, '65. 
1710. Mobley, G. W., Co. H, 44th Ala. Inf.. died March 28, "65. 

912. Mobley, William, 39th Ala. Inf., died January 27, '65. 
2009. Moiety, David, Co. B, nth N. C. I-nf.. died May 31, '65. 

517. Molley, James, Co. E. 36th Ala. Inf., died November 26, '64. 
1350. Monroe, John, Co. E, 2d S. C. Inf., died February 20, '65. 
1356. Montgomery, Deacon, Co. E, 22d Tenn. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

178. Mooney. J. W., Co. A. ist Ark. Cav., died June 14, '64. 

625. Mooney, Robert, Co. F. 43d Ga. Inf.. died December 16, '64. 

956. Moore, B. J.. Co. H, 8th S. C. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1054. Moore, D. W.. Francis's Battery, died February 5, '65. 

41. Moore, E., Co. E, 8th Tenn. , died October 8. '63. 

92. Moore, George. Co. G, i6th Va. Cav., died January 12. '64. 
1073. Moore, James. Co. A. 20th Ala. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
9. Moore. Pleasant. Co. A. 3d Ky. Cav.. died August 22, '62,. 



372 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

169. Moore, S. B,, Co. A, 29th N. C. Inf., died May 28, '64. 

891. Moore, W. H., Co. G, 3d Miss. Inf., died January 26, '65. 
1820. Moore, William C, Co. H, 3d Miss. , died April, '65. 

281. Morgan, G. W., Co. G, 8th Va. Cav., died October 5, '64. 
1808. Morgan, James, Co. F, 57th Ala. Inf., died April 3, '65. 
1575. Morgan, J. J., Co. C, citizen of Georgia, died March 6, '65. 
2035. Morgan, M. B., Co. I, 4th Ala. Cav., died June 10, '65. 
1536. Morgan, T. J., Co. E, 7th Miss. Inf., died March 4, '65. 
1706. Morreston, W. C. Co. D, 2Gth Va. Cav., died March 18, '65. 

439. Morris, Henry, Co. D, 45th Ala. Inf., died November 9, '64. 

416. Morris, John, Co. H, 24th Ala. Inf., died November 6, '64. 
1657. Morris, W. P., Co. C, 4th Ala. Cav., died March 14, '65. 

734. Morrison, A., Co. D, 22d Ala. Inf., died January 11, '65. 
1204. Morse, James, Co. A, 20th Ala. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

811. Mosely, C, Co. K, 2d Ala. Cav.. died January 19, "65. 
1 158. Mosely, J. W., Co. K, 2d Miss. Inf., died February 10, '65. 

1 144. Mosely, William, Co. K, loth Ky. Cav., died February 9, '65. 
2045. Moses, E. L., Co. D, 27th S. C. Inf., died June 16, '65. 

213. Moss, R. L., Co. K, ist Ga. Inf., died August 22, '64. 

2038. Moss, Zac, Co. G, 33d Ala. Inf., died June 11, '65. 

830. Motteron, Samuel, Co. C, 38th Tern. Inf., died January 21, '65. 

221. Mount, G. W., Co. E, 46th Ala. Inf., died August 27, '64. 

1889. Mull, W. E., Co. C, 39th N. C. Inf., died April 18, '65. 

504. Mullens, S. C, Co. A, 44th Miss. Inf., died November 22. 64. 

457. Mullens, T., Co. E, 34th Va. Inf., died November 13, '64. 

223. Mimsey, J., unknown, died August 28, '64. 

1398. Murphy, G., 13th Ky. Cav., died February 2^, '65. 

1876. Murray, Newton, Co. G, S7th Ala. Inf., died April 16, '65. 

493. Myers, A. T., Co. D, ist Conf. Inf., died November 20, '64. 

1 145. Myers, F. A., Co. I, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1255. Myers, F. N., Co. I, 19th Tenn. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1589. Myers, Joseph, Co. D, 8th S. C. Inf., died March 7, '65. 
1672. Myers, J. M., Co. E, 62d Va. Inf., died March 15. '65. 

1842. Myers, William H., Co. K, ist Tenn. Cav., died April 10, "65. 

387. Naboor, William. Co. C, citizen of Virginia, died October 31, '64. 
1699. Nance, Wash P., Co. I, loth Ala. Cav., died March 18, '65. 
1688. Nash, George, Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died March 17, '65. 
1 216. Nash, J. W., Co. F, 36th Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

318. Nash, Thomas, Co. C, 29th N. C. Inf., died October 15. 64. 
1837. Nash, Thomas J., Co. F, 37th Ga. Cav., died April 10, '65. 
1271. Nash, W. P., 36th Ga. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

134. Neal, Graham, Co. C, citizen of Tennessee, died April 12, '64. 

588. Nealey (or Nealor), W., Co. I, 39th Miss. Inf., died Dec. 10, '64. 
1764. Neely, R. S., Co. D, 7th Ala. Cav., died March 27, '65. 
1 171. Nefif, G. B., Co. A, Harrison's Cavalry, died February 9, '65. 

827. Neighbors, W., Co. H, 25th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 
1549. Nelson, J. P.. Co. A, 20th Ala. Inf., died March 5, '65. 



APPENDIX. 373 

Xo. of Grave. 

7Z2. Nelson, John W., Co. A, 17th Va. Cav., died January 9, '65. 

1803. Nelson, John W., Co. C, 29th Ala. Inf., died April i, '65. 

1 142. Nelson, Wesley A., Co. B, 34th Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65. 

1549. Nettles, G. H., Co. G, 30tli Ala. Inf., died March 6, '65. 

984. Newson, Henry L., 7th Ala. Cav.. died January 31, '65. 

544. Newsom, J. D., Co. D, 29th Ala. Inf., died December 2, '64. 

2023. Newton, J. B., Conscript N. C. Detailed, died June 3, '65. 

418. Nichols, A. S., Co. C, 25th Tex. Cav., died November 6, "64. 
1 173. Nichols, C. L., Co. E, 46th Miss. Inf., died February 10, 65. 

1 191. Nichols, G. W., Co. C, 9th Tenn. Cav., died February 11, '65. 

1867. Nichols, Robert, Co. H, 6th Tex. Cav., died April 14, '65. 

1466. Nidever, A., Co. D, 3d Tex. Cav., died February 27, '65. 

605. Nix, David, Co. I, 37th Ga. Inf., died December 12, '64. 

419. Noble, Alex, Co. G, loth Ky. Cav., died November 6, '64. 

:7io (or 1210). Nobley, W. S., Co. K, 24th Ala. Inf., died March 19, '65. 

437. Norman, Henry, Co. E, iiith N. C. Inf.. died November 9, '64. 

1900. Norman, P. R., Co. I, 41st Ga. Inf., died April 22, '65. 

844. Norris, John, Co. K, 54th N. C. Inf., died January 20, '65. 

1 193. Northcutt, G. W., 31st Ala. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

1480. Northrop, H. H., Co. H. 2d Ky. Cav., died February 28, '65. 

1782. Northrop, James T., Co. B, 39th Ala. Inf., died March 29, "65. 

1 120. Norton, T. S., Co. C, ist Ga. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

1820. Nunn, John, Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died April 5, '65. 

1883. O'Brian, James, Co. F, 4th Miss. Inf., died April 17, '65. 

529. O'Brian, W. S., Co. A, 5th Va. Cav., died November 28, '64. 

613. O'Briant. Arch, Co. K, ist Ga. Inf., died December 13, "64. 

190. O'Bryant, J. M.. Co. F. 5th Ala. Cav., died July 23, "64. 

22. O'Clowd, John, Co. G, 5th Regt. , died September 12, '62,. 

163. Odet, William, Co. C, Sth Ky. Inf., died May 21, '64. 

778. OTlonnell, Patrick, Co. K, loth Tenn. Inf., died January 17, '65. 

1576. Offield, J., Co. K, 26th Tenn. Inf., died March 6, '65. 

1361. Offield, W., Co. K, 65th Tenn. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

1938. Oglesby, G. T., Co. K, 36th Ga. Inf., died May 5^ '65. 

795. Omans, Wilson, 7th Ala. Cav., died January 17, '65. 

639. Omens, W. H., Co. I, 39th Miss. Inf., died December 20, '64. 

394. Oney, J. H., Co. C, i6th Va. Cav., died November 3, '64. 

1630. Orr, Thomas, Co. I, 43d Tenn. Inf., died March 12, '65. 

1533- Orrell. J. W., 5th Ala. Cav., died March 4, '65. 

1 195. Osborne, John, Co. C, 2d Bat. Ky. Cav., died February 11, '65. 

1731. Osborne, W. W., Co. D, 8th Miss. Inf., died March 22. '65. 

1845. Osteen. D. D., Co. A, 1st Fla. Cav., died April 9, "65. 

1563. Overstreet, L., Co. D, 24th S. C. Inf.. died March 5, "65. 

175. Owen, J., Co. A, loth Tenn. Cav., died June 10, '64. 

582. Owen, John, Co. G, 3d Conf., died December 9, '64. 

1913. Face, E. I., Co. F, 36th Ga. Inf., died April 24, '65. 

707. Pace, John, Co. A, loth Tenn. Cav., died January 5, '65. 

115. Pack, E. S., died November 30, '63. 



374 Tt^E. STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

608. Packard, E., Co. A, 40th Ga. Inf., died December 12, '64. 
1035. Paine, J. L., Co. I, 8th Conf. Cav., died February 4, "65. 

559. Paltatty, J. M., Co. C, 19th S. C. Inf., died December 6, '64. 

162. Pardeau, D. L., Co. G, 7th Ala. Cav., died April 20, '64. 
20. Park, Joseph, Co. E, 5th Ky. Cav,, died May 23, '64. 
1970. Parker, F. C, Co. G, 46th Ga. Inf., died May 16, '65. 

674. Parker, James, Co. B, 19th S. C. Inf., died December 27, '64. 

943. Parker, John M., Co. G, ist Ala. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

823. Parsley, Richard, Co. I, 28th Tenn. Inf., died January 21, '65. 

857. Parsons, W. L., citizen of Jackson County, Va., died January 23, '65. 

215. Parvett, John, Co. H, 6oth Va. Inf., died August 13, '64. 

899. Paschal, T. P., Co. C, S3d Ala. Cav., died January 26> '65. 

145. Pate, George E., Co. D, 34th Miss. , died March, '64. 

1078. Pate, Thomas, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 7, '65. 

1225. Patrath, S., Co. A, 25th or 35th Ala. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

1028. Patrick, Preston, Co. D, 6th Miss. Inf., died February 3, '65. 

454. Patrick, Wilson, Co. I, i6th Va. Inf., died November 12, '64. 

259. Patten, Samuel, 66th Ga. Inf., died September 7, '64. 

624. Patterson, Archie, Co. C, 4th Fla. Inf., died December 16, '64. 
1835. Patterson, George W., Co. C, 37th Va. Cav., died April 9, '65. 

649. Patterson, James, Co. K, 47th Tenn. Cav., died December 21, '64. 
1 136. Patterson, W. T., Co. F, Thomas's Legion, died February 14, '65. 

329. Paulet, W. H., Co. A, i6th Va. Cav., died October 17, '6z|. 
1009. Pauley, Ira, Co. F, 8th Va. Cav., died February 2, '65. 
1471. Paulk, W. L., Co. E, 12th Ala. Inf., died February 27, '65. 
1604. Payne, Commodore, Co. A, 19th Va. Cav., died March 9, '65. 
1566. Payne, W. H., Co. F, 20th Ala. Cav., died March 6, '65. 
1244. Payton, W. R., Co. F, 36th Ga. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

620. Peacock, J. W., Co. D, 63d Ga. Inf., died December 15, '64. 

898. Peacock, W. D., Co. B, 36th Ala. Inf., died January 26, '65. 
1240. Peake, Samuel (or L.), Co. G, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

75. Pendry, Richard, Co. B, loth Ky. Cav., died November 6, '63. 
1776. Pennell, J. A., Co. F, 31st Ala. Inf., died March 26, '65. 
40. Penney, J. S., Co. A. ist La. Cav., died October 7, '63. 

217. Penniston, C. W., 5th La. Cav., died August 23, '64. 

409. Perkins, Elijah, Co. E, Clay's Battery, died November 5, '64. 

291. Perkison, W. P., Co. A, 51st Ala. Inf., died October 8, '64. 

631. Perry, E. J., Co. F, 28th Miss. Cav., died December 18, '64. 

505. Perry, Stephen R., Co. G, 27th Miss. Inf., died December 10, '64. 
1023. Peterson, R. B., Co. C. 35th Miss. Inf., died February 3, '65. 

9t6. Peterson, W. B., Co. C, 17th Ala. Inf., died February 2, "65. 

225. Petil, N. M., i8th Tex. Cav., died October 13, '64. 
1088. Petty, G. W., Co. I, 8th Tenn. Cav., died February 7, '65. 
1625. Philips, A. J., Co. H, 5th Ga. Cav., died March 10, '65. 
1936. Philips, John S., Co. B. 8th Ga. Inf., died May 4, '65. 
1562. Philips, W. E., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 5, '65. 

336. Phillips, John, Co. I, 37th Va. Cav.. died October 17, '64. 



APPENDIX. 375 

No. of Grave. 

43. Phillips, p. R., Co. E, loth Conf., died October 8, '63. 

347. Phillips, Robert, Co. I. S4th Ala. Inf., died October 22, '64. 
446. Pierce, John, Co. I, 17th Ala. Inf., died November 11, '64. 
954. Pierce, R. M., Co. C, 55th Tenn. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

910. Pierson (or Parsons), W. G., 34th Ala. Inf., died January 27, '65. 
1280. Piles, T. E., Co. H, Tennessee Reserves, died February 15, '65. 

681. Pinkston, Richard, Co. B, 27th Ala. Inf., died December 29, '64. 
1152. Pitman, John E., Co. A. 6th Fla. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

679. Pitmar, John D., Co. H, 66th Ga. Inf., died December 29, "64. 
1823. Pitts, Benjamin, Co. G, 27th Miss. Inf., died April 7. '65. 

636. Pitzenbarger, A., Co. G, 22d Ala. Inf., died December 19, '64. 
1024. Plant (or Piatt), W. H., Co. C, 34th Ga. Inf., died February 3. '65. 
1 132. Piatt, I. L., Co. E, 36th Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65 

503. Pledger, Calvin, 23d Ark. Inf., died November 21, '64. 
1288. Poe, John, Tennessee Conscripts, died February 15, '65. 

200. Poe, Thomas J., Co. B, 28th Ala. Inf., died September 9, '63. 
1663. Poindexter, W., Co. D, 20th Tenn. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

792. Poling, Jacob, citizen of Virginia, died January 17, '65. 

311. Pollard, John, Co. E, 5th Miss. Inf., died October 9, '64. 
1686. Pomphrey, G. W., Co. E, ist Md. Cav., died March 17, '65. 

361. Pope, H. L., Co. I. 6th N. C. Inf., died October 25. '64. 
1730. Pope, J. R., Co. C, 23d Ala. Inf., died March 21, "65. 

655. Pope, W., Co. I, 2d Va. Inf., died December 25, '64. 
59. Pope, W. L., Co. A, 9th Tenn. Cav., died Nov. 6, '63. Removed. 
54. Porter, J. H., Co. G, 8th Va. Cav., died October 20, '63. 
1847. Porter, J. W., Co. H, 19th S. C. Inf., died April 9, '65. 
1915. Porter, William E., Co. C. 39th Miss. Inf., died April 24, '65. 
2034. Posey, W. T., Co. I, 5th Ala. Cav., died June 7, '65. 
1511. Potts, R. P., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 2, '65. 

348. Powell, Henry, Co. G, 8th Va. Cav., died October 22, '64. 
1988. Powell, James W., Co. E. ist Ga. Inf.. died May 20, '65. 
1925. Powell, R. W., Co. H, 56th Ga. Inf., died April 28, '65. 

411. Pratt, L. P.. Co. B, 4th La. Bat., died November 5, '64. 
1314. Preacher, W. E., Co. E, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 17, '65. 

575. Price, A. B., citizen of Kentucky, died December 8, '64. 

286. Price, Daniel, citizen of South Carolina, died September 20, '64. 

968. Price, R. C, Co. C, 15th S. C. Inf., died January 30, '65. 

490. Price, Thomas B., Co. F, 4th Ga. Cav., died November 19, '64. 

806. Pridemore, William, Co. G, 27ih Va. Cav., died January 19, '65. 

645. Priger. Steve, Co. D, 53d Ala. Cav., died December 22, '64. 

716. Pritchard, I. W., Co. A, 1st Conf. Cav., died January 6, '65. 
1085. Pritchford, N. W., Co. F, loth Ala. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

226. Probpte, A., ist Va. Cav., died August 24, '64. 
1393- Pi'ovince, R., Co. A, 35th Ala. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
1335- Pruett, W. P., Co. F, 2d Miss. Cav., died February 19. '65. 
1139. Pruner, John, Co. F, ist Conf. Ga. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1570. Pugh, J. W., Co. F, 7th Va. Cav., died March 6, '65. 



376 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

482. Pugh, T. J., Co. C, 19th Miss. Inf., died November 18, '64. 

942. PuUen, John, Co. E, 2Sth Ga. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

229. Pursel, Richard, Co. I, 36th Va. Inf., died August 23, '64. 

1450. Puslunth, , Co. B, nth Ky. Cav., died February, '65. 

161 1. Quadelbum, C. Co. B, 57th Ala. Inf., died March 10, '65. 

129. Queen, G. W., Co. F, 20th Va. Cav., died April (or August) 7, '63. 
1705. Quickie, A. A., citizen of Virginia, died March 18, '65. 

639. Quinn, G. W., Co. A, 34th Miss. Inf., died December 19, '64. 

705. Quinn, John R., citizen of Tennessee, died January 5, '65. 
2010 Quinn, Patrick, Miss. Bat., died May 30, '65. 
1387. Quisenby, R., Co. B, 4th Ky. Cav., died February 22, '65. 
1 133. Rabon, John, Co. K, 4th La. Inf., died February 9, '65. 

861. Rabon, John, Co. G, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 24, '65. 
1224. Raborn, Cyrus, Co. H, 30th Miss. Inf., died February 13. '65. 
1020. Raborn, Trusley, Co. D, 19th Tenn. Inf., died February 3, '65. 
1999. Rader, James B., Co. K, 62d Va. Inf., died May 25, '65. 
1 194. Radford, I. W., Co. D, 56th Ala. Cav., died February 11, '65. 
1497. Ragham, James. Co. D, i6th La. Inf., died March i, '65. 
1488. Rainar, W. C, Co. E, 26th Ala. Inf., died February 28, '65. 

21. Rains, Joel, Co. F, 5th Tenn. , died September 9, '63. 

1646. Raley, B. J., Co. D. 7th Miss. Inf., died March 13, '65. 
1245. Ramage, R., Co. H, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
55. Ramney, George, Co. G, 8tli Ky. , died October 23, '63. 

16S. Ramsey, A. M., Co. D, 14th Ky. Cav., died May 28, '64. 
1839. Ranes, J. W.. Co. F, 55th Ala. Inf., died April 10, '65. 
1766. Rasberry, James, Co. C, 31st Miss. Inf., died March 27, '65.' 

952. Ratcliffe, Samuel, Co. E, 22d Miss. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
1079. Rathburn, P. A., Co. A, 19th La. Inf., died February 6, '65. 
'^i2)?>- Rawles, J. D., Co. B, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 18, '65. 
1429. Ray, F. W., Co. D, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

44. Ray, Henry, Co. D, 5th N. C. Cav., died October 9, '63. 
2048. Ray, John, Co. K, 17th Ala. Inf., died June 19, '65. 

969. Ray, William, Co. I, i8th Miss. Cav., died January 30, '65. 

401. Reade, James M., Co. D, 8th Va. Cav., died November 4, '64. 
1650. Redden, Jefif, citizen of Alabama, died March 14, '65. 

548. Reed, F., Co. H, 51st Va. Inf., died December 3, '64. 

206. Reed, R. T., Co. D, 15th Tenn. Cav., died August 16, '64. 
1605. Reese, E. G., Co. B, 20th Miss. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

728. Reese, John H., Co. H, 6th Va. Inf., died January 9, '65. 

967. Reese, O. H. P., Co. C, 35th Miss. Inf., died January 29, '65. 

191. Reese, W. R., Co. C, nth Tenn. Cav., died July 25, '64. 

307. Reeves, 'D. W., Co. I, 36th Tenn. Inf., died October 13, '64. 
1019. Regester, F. M., Co. G. 57th Ala. Inf., died February 3. '65. 
1532. Register, G. W., Co. G, ist Fla. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

518. Reville, F. H., Co. E, 29th Ga. Inf., died November 26, '64. 

410. Reynolds, Charles, Co. H, 53d Ala. Inf.. died November 5, '64. 

489. Reynolds, S., Co. K, 29th Tenn. Inf., died November 19, '64. 



APPENDIX. 377 

No. of Grave. 

428. Reynolds, Thomas, citizen of Virginia, died November 7, '64. 
1626. Rice, Z., Co. H, 30th Ala. Inf., died March 11, '65. 
1841. Richards, A. I., Co. A, ist Tenn. Inf., died April 10, '65. 
1884. Richards, George, 7th Fla. Inf., died April 17, '65. 

718. Richards, John, Co. G, 37th Bat. Cav., died January 7, '65. 
15 10. Richards, Thomas, Co. B, 13th Tenn. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

24. Richards, Thomas, Co. C, 49th Tenn. , died September 17, '62,. 

1399. Richardson, W. M., Co. D, 8th Ala. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
1857. Richardson, William, Co. K, 36th Ga. Inf., died April 13, '65. 
1231. Richmond, W. D., Co. F, 4th Ark. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

798. Ricks, John W.. Co. I, 15th Miss. Inf., died January 18, '65. 
1897. Riddle, R. R.. Co. .\, loth Ky. Cav., died April 19. "65. 

667. Rider, David, Co. I, 43d Ga. Inf., died December 26, '64. 
1441. Rinchear, W., Co. A, ist Ala. Inf., died February 25, "65. 

358. Roach, Joseph, Co. H, 7th Fla. Inf., died October 25, "64. 
1222. Roach, Robert, Co. C, 6th Fla. Inf., died February 13, '65. 
1670. Roach, W. E.. Co. E, Armstrong's Cavalry, died March 15, '65. 

222. Robenson, W., Co. B, — Miss. Cav., died August 28, '64. 
1515. Roberson, N. A., Co. E. iiith N. C. Troops, died March 3. '65. 
38. Roberts, Daniel, — Va. . died October 5, '63. 

301. Roberts, E., Clay's Ky. Bat., died August 14, '64. 
1748. Roberts, H. C. Rogers's Escort, died March 25, '65. 

333. Roberts, Jackson, — Ala. Cav., died October 18, '64. 
1090. Roberts, J. M., Co. H. 36th Ga. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

760. Roberts, L. D., Co. D, 3d Fla. Inf., died January 13, '65. 
1555. Roberts, M.. Co. E, 19th Bat. Va. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

506. Roberts, M. A., Co. B, 4th Ga. Inf., died November 22, '64. 

849. Roberts, R. R., Co. F, 15th Ky. Cav., died January 23, '65. 

2yi. Roberts, S. J., Co. H, 41st Ga. Inf., died September 28, '64. 
1714. Robertson, T. J., Co. L, 3d Ga., died March 19, '65. 
1905. Robertson, W. S., Co. I, 36th Ala. Inf., died April 23, '65. 

505. Robins, John G., Co. A, i6th Tenn. Cav., died November 22, '64. 

824. Robinson, Berry, Co. G, Smith's Va. Home Guards, died Jan. 21, '65. 

306. Robinson, Israel, Co. I, 8th Va. Inf., died October 12. '64. 

708. Robinson, N. (or James), Co. H, 28th Tenn. Inf., died January 5, '65. 

610. Robinson, W. D., Co. D, 4th Ala. Cav.. died December 13, '64. 

775. Rocketts, James A.. Co. I, 8th Conf. Cav., died January 15, '65. 
No such man. 

691. Roddy. George, 33d Ga. Inf., died December 31, '64. 
1592. Rodenberry, J.. Co. K, 7th Fla. Inf., died March 8, '65. 
78. Rodgers, John, Co. C. 66th N. C. Cav., died December 4, '6^. 

933. Rodgers, J. A. B., Co. F, 4th Ala. Cav., died January 28, '65. 
1476. Rodgers, J. M., Co. E, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 28, '65. 
1467. Rodgers, L. M., Co. A, 57th Ala. Inf., died February 27, '65. 
1431. Rodgers, M.. Co. H, S7th Ala. Inf., died February 24, '65. 
1039. Rodgers, M. T., Co. D, 20th Miss. Inf.. died February 4. '65. 

467. Rodgers, Peter, Co. I, 8th Tenn. Cav., died November 14, '64. 



378 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

Xo. of Grave. 

977. Rogers, I. W., citizen of Tennessee, died January 31, '65. 
1773. Rogers, James W., Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died March 28, '65. 
1924. Rogers, J. M., Co. A, 36th Ga. Inf., died April 27, '65. 
1751. Rogers, Warren, Co. B, 18th Ala. Inf., died March 25, '65. 

456. Roe, David, Co. I, 2d Ky. Cav., died November 13, '64. 

402. Roe, James, Co. K, ist Tenn. Cav., died November 4, '64. 
1668. Rolsey, W. H., Co. A, 6ist Tenn. Inf., died March 15, '65. 
32. Rondine, John, Co. C, 17th Va. Cav., died September 29, '63. 

391. Roper, J. M., Co. G, ist Ga. Inf., died November 3, '64. 

862. Rose, E. D. W., Co. B, 51st Va. Inf., died January 24, '65. 
1002. Rose, L. J., Co. F, ist Md. Cav., died February 2, '65. 
1024. Rose, R. P., Co. D, 27th Miss. Inf., died February 6, '65. 
1021. Ross, J. W. W., Co. E, nth Ky. Cav., died February i. '65. 
1509. Ross, W. M., Co. G, Moreland's Cavalry, died March 2, '65. 
1409. Roundtree, J. S., Co. H, ist Ga. Inf., died February 23, '65. 

443. Rowland. J. G., Co. H, 57th N. C. Inf., died November 9, "64. 

447. Rozar, Luke, Co. K, 5th Ga. Cav., died November 11, '64. 

132. Rudd, Elijah, Co. A, 2d Ky. Rifles, died April 9, '64. 
1939. Runnels, P., Co. C, 7th Miss. Bat. Inf., died May 5, '65. 
1992: Rusher, Miles, Co. B, 4th N. C. Inf., died May 22, '65. 

62. Russell, A. C, Co. B, nth Va. Cav., died November 9. '63- 
1804. Russell, Edmund, Co. C, 4th Ark. Inf., died April 2, '65. 

560. Russell, Isaac, Co. H, ist Fla. Inf., died December 6, '64. 
1013. Russell, J. H., Co. C, 5th Miss. Cav., died February 8, '65. 
1026. Ruster, W. H. P., Co. F, 17th Ala. Inf., died February 3, '65. 
1 135. Rutchford, W., Co. C, 3d Ga. Cav., died February 9, '65. 
1680. Ruth, J. C, Co. F, 41st Tenn. Inf., died March 16, '65. 

601. Rutherford, W., Georgia Militia, died December 10, '64. 
1217. Rutledge, J. M., Co. D, 42d Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 

535. Rutledge, John O., Co. C, 19th Va. Cav., died November 30, '64. 
1784. Rutledge, P. A., Co. C, 25th Ala. Inf., died March 30, '65. 
1 184. Rutlifif, M., Co. K, i8th Tex. Cav., died February 11, '65. 
1275. Rutsel, J. H., Co. D, 12th La. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

282. Ryan, F. N., Co. C, 17th Va. Cav., died October 6, '64. 
1765. Saling, Finney, Co. A, 4th Ala. Inf., died March 27, '65. 
1044. Salley, G. W., Co. H, 35th Miss. Inf., died February 4, '65. 

913. Salter, A. H., Co. F, ist Ala. Inf., died Febniary 2, '65. 

339. Salmon, W. R., Co. C, 30th Ga. Inf., died October 18, '64. 
1343. Sample, James, Co. B, loth Ky. Cav., died February 19, '65. 

369. Sampson, George, citizen of Virginia, died October 27, '64. 
1844. Sanders, James A.. Co. F, 31st Miss. Cav., died April 10, '65. 
1277. Sanders, W. B., Co. A, 23d Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 

627. Sanders, W. F., Co. C, 15th S. C, Inf., died December 18, '64. 

491. Sanders, W. P., Co. K, 46th Miss.. Inf., died November 19, '64. 

917. Sanderson, David, Co. A, loth Ala. Cav., died January 28, '64. 

988. Sanderson, J.-B., Co. H, loth Ala. Cav., died February i, '65. 

580. Sanford, John, Ward's Battery, died December 9, '64. 



APPENDIX. 379 

No. of Grave. 

1637. Sanford, V. A., Co. H, ist Ala. Inf., died March 12, '65. 

888. Sanott, William, Co. A, 5th Conf. Inf., died January 26, '64. 
582. Sansey, A. G., ist Ga. Inf., died December 9, '64. 

1568. Satterfield, J. B., Co. A, 6th Ga. Cav., died March 6, '65. 
1169. Saucier, N., Co. F, 3d Miss. Inf., died February 10, '65. 
1 188. Saunders, Moses, Co. G, 39th Ala. Inf., died February 11, '65. 
1 21 3. Sayer, D. P., Co. I, 56th Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 
1458. Scandler, Pat, Co. B, Sth Conf. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

947. Scarber, Edgar, Co. D, 38th Ala. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

142. Schafer, W. F., 17th Tenn. Cav., died April 21, '64. 
1472. Schogan, I. D., Co. I, 33d Miss. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

589. Schrader, Chris, citizen of Virginia, died December 10. '64. 

889. Schrisopsher, J. P. B., Co. E, 7th Miss. Bat. Inf., died Jan. 26, '64. 
30. "Schriver, E. L., Co. E, 5th Ky. Cav., died September 28. '63. 

1725. Scott, D. H., Co. H, 23d Miss. Inf., died March 21, "65. 
2036. Scott, W. B., Co. G, Sth Ga. Bat. Inf., died June 9. '65. 

1 182. Scriggs, J., Co. E, 48th Tenn. Inf., died February 11, '65. 
1687. Scrogan, W. A., Co. C, 56th Ga. Inf., died March 17, '65. 

982. Secrease, R. H., Co. B, 4th Mo. Cav., died January 31. '65. 

188. Seimpkins, George, died September, '64. 
72. Sellard, David, Co. E, i6th Va. Cav., died November 24, '63. 

141. Sellers, John, Sth Ky. Cav., died April 19, '64. 
1635. Sellers, P., Co. A, 2d Ala. Cav., died March 12, '65. 
1487. Senclair, I. A., Co. A, ist Conf. Cav., died February 28, '65. 

415. Seniker. D. B., Co. B, 36th Va. Inf.. died November 6, '64. 

133. Senles, Capt. W. N., died April 9, '64. Removed. 
II2T. Sensabaugh, John S., Co. I, 29th N. C. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

666. Seopine, Ed, Co. B, i6th La. Inf., died December 26, '64. 

717. Sermons, John. Co. G. 29th Ga. Inf., died January 7, '65. 

526. Shamel, Jacob W., Co. B, 6th N. C. Inf., died November 27. '64. 
1923. Shane, E. B.. Co. B, ist Fla. Inf., died April 27, '65. 

2041. Shanton, M. D.. Co. B, 24th S. C. , died June 13, '65. 

1043. Sharp, F., Co. I, ist Tenn. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

23. Sharp, G. B., Co. A, loth Va. Cav., died September 25, '63. 
1704. Sharp, James A., Co. A, 2d Ky. Cav., died March 18. '65. 

735. Sharp, James L., Co. F, 19th Va. Cav., died January 9, '65. 

1 183. Shaver, Elijah, Conscript of Tennessee, died February 11, '65. 
893. Shaw, A. L., Co. A, i8th Ala. Inf., died January 26, '64. 

1201. Shawber, John A., Co. F, 22d Va. Cav., died February 12, '65. 

658. Shealey, L., Co. C, iSth S. C. Inf., died December 23, '64. 

815. Shearouse, J. W., Co. I, 54th Ga. Inf., died January 20. '64. 
1340. Shelton, Isaac, Co. K. 56th Ga. Inf., died February 19, '65. 
1 5 14. Shelton, J. H., Co. A, Hays's Cavalry, died March 2, '65. 
1613. Shephard, H., Stewart's Escort, died March 10, '65. 

906. Shephard, John, Co. A, 45th Ala. Inf., died January 27, '64. 

973. Sheppard, Philip, Co. B, 38th Ala. Inf., died January 30, '65. 

109. Sherault. J., died February, '64. 



380 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No of Grave. 

865. Sherrew, John, Co. K, i6th La. Inf., died January 24, '64. 

404. Shields, John, Co. B, 19th La. Inf., died November 4, '64. 

1516. Ship, R., Co. F, 39th Ala. Inf., died March 2, '65. 

1449. Shirly, Hampton, Co. G, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

1 104. Shoemaker, J., Co. I, 15th Tenn. Inf., died February 8, '65. 

1477. Sholer, W. A.. Co. L, loth Ala. Cav., died February 27, '65. 

519. Shoop, J. W.. Co. E, 31st Va. Cav., died November 26, '64. 

1928. Shrouse, I. F., Co. K, 52d Ga. Inf., died April 30, '65. 

1430. Silas, E., Co. I, 34th Ala. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

918. Sills, S. J., Co. E, 38th Miss. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

444. Silver, L. P., Co. I, 29th N. C. Inf., died November 9, 64. 

1263. Simmes, W. C, Co. A, Camper's Battery, died February 15, '65. 

533. Simmons, J. L., Co. E, 54th Ala. Inf., died November 29, '64. 

1290. Simmons. J. W., Co. K, 5th Miss. Cav., died February 16, '65. 

327. Simpson, John, ist Ga. Cav., died October 17, '64. 

1336. Singleton, H. B., Co. E, 34th Ala. Inf.. died February 19. '65. 

2005. Singley, John. Co. I. 30th Ga. Inf., died May 29, '65. 

1462. Sinkins, L., Co. E. 23d Ark. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

864. Sinn, William, Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died January 24, '64. 

499. Sisenore, David, Co. K, 37th Va. Cav., died November 20, '64. 

116. Sizemore, G. (or W. C. ). Co. F, 7th Ala, died February,. '64. 

1645. Skinner, F. E., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 13, '65. 

2026. Skinner, N. S., Co. I, 30th Ga. Inf., died June 4, '65. 

1317. Slaughter, J. W.. Co. K. 2d Miss. Cav., died February 17, '65. 

1994. Small, James, Co. C, 19th Va. Cav., died May 23, '65. 

1814. Smallwood. C. S., Co. F, 4th Ga. Cav., died April 3, '65. 
1 123. Smith, A. H., Co. F. 22d Ala. Inf., died February 8, '65. 
2040. Smith. A. M., Co. D, ist Ga. Bat. Inf., died June 13, '65. 
1752. Smith, Alex. Co. B. 8th Va. Cav.. died March 25. '65. 

563. Smith, Alex J., Co. E, 29th Ga. Inf., died December 6, '64. 

1512. Smith, B. A.. Co. G. 57th Ala. Inf., died March 2, "65. 

935. Smith, C. C. Co. E. 34th Va. Bat. Cav., died January 28, '65. 

141 2. Smith, C. N.. Co. A, 36th Va. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

1815. Smith, C. T., Co. A, 17th Miss. Cav., died April 3, '65. 
1257. Smith, E. H., Co. G, 58th Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1219. Smith, Elfred, Co. B, 3d Miss. Inf.. died February 13. '65. 

539. Smith, F. B., Co. C, Dobbin's Ark. Cav., died Dec. i. '64. Removed. 

Tiio. Smith, Ga.sper, Co. C, 1st Ark. Inf.. died February 8, '65. 

894. Smith, Hilliard, Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died January 26, "64. 

1185. Smith, Howell S., Co. A, i8th Miss. Inf., died February 11, '65. 

108. Smith. J. B., 66th N. C. Cav.. died February, '64. 

T432. Smith, J., Co. E, 1st Fla. Cav., died February 24, '65. 

326. Smith. J. H.. Co. D, ist Ga. Cav., died October 17, '64. 

1285. Smith, J. O., Co. D, 24th S. C. Inf., died February 16, '65. 

359. Smith, J. P.. Co. D, 29th Miss. Inf., died October 25, '64. 

1538. Smith, J. W., Co. A, 6th Fla. Inf.. died March 4. "65. 

96. Smith. John, citizen of West Virginia, died January 16. '64. 



APPENDIX. 381 

No. of Grave. 

1378. Smith, L. T., Co. H, 21st Ga. Inf., died February 22, '65. 

831. Smith, Morgan, Co. D, 6th N. C. Inf., died January 20, '64. 

290. Smith, Noah B., Co. I, 42d Ga. Cav., died October 9, '64. 
194c. Smith. R. N., Co. C, 21st Tenn. Cav., died May 6, '65. 
29. Smith, Robert, Jr., Co. G, 2d Tenn. Cav., died September 25, '63. 

698. Smith, Shemorick, Co. C, 2d Ala. Cav., died January 3, '65. 
1741. Smith, Simeon. Co. A, 20th Miss. Inf., died March 23, '65. 
1800. Smith, S. S. (or S. P.), Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

131. Smith, Virgil, Co. B, 2d Md. Cav., died April 8, '64. 
1968. Smith, W. D., Co. G, 8th N. C. Inf., died May 16, '65. 

545. Smith, W. G., Co. B, 33d Miss. Inf., died December 2, '64. 

122. Smith. W. S., Co. E, 26th Va. Cav., died March, '64. 
1513. Smotherman, J. W., Co. D, nth Tenn. Cav., died March 2, '65. 
1661. Snipes, J. B., Co. A. 46th Ga. Inf., died March 14, '65. 
1874. Sorrulls, W. H., Co. H, 42d Miss. Cav., died April 3, '65. 
1218. Spain, Thomas. Co. F, 66th Ga. Inf., died February 13, '65. 
1447. Sparkman, C. I., Co. A, 4th La. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

234. Sparks, J., Co. C, i8th Ala. Inf., died September 9. '64. 

406. Spears, J. B., Co. E. ist Ga. Inf., died November 5, '64. 
1433. Speers, I. H., Co. C, 4th Ga. Cav., died February 24, '65. 

561. Spencer, B. H.. Co. H. 5th Ga. Cav., died December 6, '64. 
1394. Spencer, W. A., Moreland's Cavalry, died February 23, '65. 

2007. Spere, James, Co. D, 17th Ala. Inf., died May 29, '65. 
1383. Spicer, I. S., Co. K, 2d Tenn. Cav., died February 23, '65. 

863. Spriggs, Andrew, Co. F, 13th Bat. Va. Inf., died January 24, '64. 
ID. Sproul, S. H., loth Conf. Cav., died August 22. '63. 

III. St. Clair, J., died February, '64. 

371. St. John, Abner, Co. D, i8th Tenn. Inf., died October 28. '64. 
1068. Staff (or Stapp), J. W., Co. I. 7th Ala. Cav., died February 5, '65. 
1982. Stafford. Louis, Co. H, ist N. C. Detailed, died May 18, '65. 

451. Stafford, S. J.. Co. F, 8th Va. Cav.. died November 11, '64. 

632. Stafford, W. B.. Co. F. 8th Va. Cav., died December 19, '64. 
1306. Stakes, W. W.. Co. E. 58th Ala. Inf., died February 17, '65. 
1797. Stalwker, R. P. W.. Co. A, 46th Ala. Inf., died March 27, '65. 

177. Stamper. Joel. Co. I. 2d Ky. Cav., died June 12, '64. 

153. Stanton. W. H.. Co. D, 35th Ala. Inf., died May 12, '64. 
1639. Staub, Mike, Co. F, 13th La. Inf., died March 13, '65. 

80. Stead, J. D., White's Va. Bat., died December ir, '63. 
1793. Steal (or Stiles), R. W., Co. K, 44th Miss. Inf., died March 31, '65. 

2008. Stearnes, W. W., Co. I, 23d Ala. Inf., died May 31, '65. 
1791. Steel, Joseph B., Co. K, 33d Miss. Inf., died March 31, '65. 
1527 Steel, J., Co. A, Tenn. Reserve Troops, died March 3, '65. 

. Stenett, Summerson, Co. A, 40th Miss. , died March 24, '65. 

884. Stephen, Cyrus, 39th N. C. Inf., died January 25, '64. 
1818. Stephens, Casal, Co. I, 22d Miss. Inf., died April 3, '65. 
J624. Stephens, I. H., Co. E. ist Conf. Cav., died March 11, '65. 
T156. Stephens. T^ Co. H. 33d Ala. Inf., died February 9, "65. 



382 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Gra e. 

1042. Stephens, J. D., Co. H, 17th Va. Cav., died February 4, '65. 

740. Stephens, Marsback, Co. I, 4th Tenn. Cav., died January 9, '65. 

512. Stephens, T. J., Co. B. i6th La. Inf., died Nov. 24, '64. Removed. 
1453. Stephens, William, Co. B, 38th Ala. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

442. Sternes, Thomas W., Co. D, 2d Ark. Inf., died November 9, '64. 
1872. Steward, Hazel!, Co. I, 40th Miss. Cav., died April 15, '65. 
1862. Steward, William W., Co. F, 36th Miss. Cav., died April 14, '65. 
1283. Stewart, B. F., Co. H, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1056. Stewart, Charles, W., Co. F, 2Sth Ga. Inf., died February 5, '65. 

433. Stewart, Douglas, Co. E, 24th Ala. Inf., died November 8, '64. 
1248. Stewart, G. C, Co. I, 35th Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
I3v39- Stewart, J., Co. D, 29th Tenn. Inf., died February 19, '65. 
2,7. Stewart, Robert, Co. E, 19th Va. Cav., died October 5, '63. 

268. Stewart, S., Co. C, 24th Va. Cav., died September 24, '64. 

197. Stickler, A. M., Co. F, 26th Va. Inf., died August 9, '64. 
1545. Stickney, J. E., Co. E, 19th S. C. Inf., died March 4, '65. 

1600. Stiles, T., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 8, '65. 
42. Stinnett, S. A., Co. I, 2d Ky., died October 8, '63. 

283. Stizer, E. A., died October 6, "64. 

900. Stoggsdale, Thomas, Co. I, 55th Ala. Inf., died January 26, '64. 
1 1 17. Stokely, W. G., Co. E, ist Fla. Cav., died February 8, '65. 

745. Stone, B. F., Co. H, 3Sth Miss. Inf., died January 11. '65. 
1937. Stone, James R., Wheeler's Scouts, died May 4, '65. 

136. Stone, P. T., 9th Ky. Cav., died April 13, '64. 

452. Stone, William T., Co. C, 12th Tenn. Inf., died November 12, '64. 
1389. Stovell, A. J., Co. H, 5th Conf. Inf., died February 22, '65. 
. Stratton. , — Ark. , died June, '65. 

890. Strawl, J. B.. Co. C, 41st Tenn. Inf., died January 26, '64. 
1740. Strickland, C, Co. A, 29th Ga. Inf., died March 23, '65. 
1228. Strikland, J., Co. B, ist Ga. Inf., died February 14, '65. 
1475. Strother, G. M., Co. K. 46th Ala. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

276. Studer, J. B., Co. A, 43d Ga. Inf., died October 2, '64. 
1886. Sturdevant, Thomas F., Co. A, 31st N. C. Inf., died April 17, '65. 
1408. Suddeth, I. L., Co. F, 54th Ala. Inf., died February 23, '65. 
1030. Suggs, D. W., Co. C, 6th Tenn. Inf., died February 3, '65. 

797. Sullivan, Dennis, Co. D, 5th Conf. Cav., died January 18, '64. 

805. Sullivan, George, Co. L, 4th Tenn. Cav., died January 19, '64. 

816. Summerall, John, Co. C, 7th Bat. Miss. Inf., died January 20, "64. 

789. Summers, Robert, Co. H. 46th Ala. Inf., died January 16, '65. 
1991. Summersett, John W., Co. H, i8th Ala. Inf., died May 21, '65. 

1601. Suppington, D., Co. K. 14th Miss. Cav., died March 9, '65. 
^2033. Sutlora, A. B., Co. A, 22d Miss. Inf., died June 8, '65. 

989. Sutton, James G, Co. K, 12th Ark. Inf., died February i, '65. 
1 131. Sweley, John M.. Nitre Mining Bureau, died February 9, '65. 
1997. Swope, Henry, Co. D. 27th Va. Inf., died May 25, '65. 
1260. Sykes, A. C, Co. C. 30th Miss. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1622. Sylvester, Serg. W. M., 6th Fla. Inf., died March 11, '65. 



APPENDIX. 383 

No. of Grave. 

538. Syree, John S., Co. D, 34th Miss. Detailed, died December i, '64. 

1025. Tabor, I., Co. F, 14th Va. Cav., died February 3, '65. 

729. Taggart, E. H., Co. G, 29th Ga. Inf., died January 9, '65. 
902. Talbot, I. F., Co. G, 19th S. C. Inf., died January 27, '65. 

1089. Talbot, John W., Co. E, 34th Ga. Inf., died February 7, '65. 

252. Talliman, H. F., Co. C, 45th Va. Inf., died August 24, '64. 
501. Tally, Jonas, Co. B, — N. C. Inf., died November 21, '64. 
149. Talton, T. E., Co. F, 36th Ga. Inf., died May 8, 6'4. 

6. Tanilin, H., 2d Cav.. died August 15, '63. 

1943. Tappley, J. P., Co. I, 39th Miss. Inf., died May 8, '65. 
1901. Tarrb, Robert M., Co. H, 7th Ala. Cav., died April 22, '65. 
1522. Tate, J., Co. D, nth Tenn. Cav., died March 3, '65. 

498. Taylor, Daniel S., Co. G, 17th Va. Cav., died November 21, '64. 
1 125. Taylor, J. B., Co. B, 14th Va. Cav., died February 5, '65. 
1308. Taylor, J. M., Co. F, ist Conf. Ga. Inf., died February 17, '65. 
1200. Taylor, J. W., Co. C, 25th Ga. Inf., died February 12, '65. 

854. Taylor, James A., Co. D, 35th Miss. Inf., died January 23, '65. 

408. Taylor, James J., Co. B, 12th Tenn. Cav., died November 5, '64. 

133. Taylor, John, Co. I, ist La. Cav., died January 15, '64. 

214. Taylor, K., Co. A, 33d Tenn. Inf., died August 4, '64. 
1888. Taylor, Robert R., Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died April 19, '65. 

161. Taylor, W., Co. G, 31st Tenn. Inf., died May 15, '64. 

218. Taylor, W. I., Co. K, 22d Va. Inf., died August 23, '64. 
1064. Taylor, W. L., Co. E, 36th Ala. Inf., died February 6, '65. 
1386. Tell, G. W., Co. B, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 22, '65. 
1470. Templeton, J. N., Co. E, 35th Miss. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

634. Templeton, W. N., Co. A, 5th N. C. Bat., died December 19, '64. 

979. Tennison, W. H., Stuart's Escort, died January 30, '65. 
1729. Terry, Thomas, Co. F, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 21, '65. 

730. Terry, W. T., Co. B, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 9, '65. 
157. Tevalt, P. W., Co. H. nth Va. Cav., died May 6, '64. 

1833. Thacker, Martin J., Co. F, 28th Tenn. Inf., died April 8, '65. 
784. Thede, James J., Co. F, 34th Ala. Inf., died January 16, '65. 
261. Thigpen, J., Co. I, 20th Ala. Inf., died September 18, '64. 
960. Thomas, J. N., Co. M, 8th S. S. Inf., died January 29, '65. 
332. Thomas, James G., Co. B, 5th Ala. Cav., died September 9. '64. 

731. Thomas, S. M., Co. E, 29th Ga. Inf., died January 9, '65. 
1105. Thomas, William S., Enrolling Officer, died February 8, '65. 

722. Thompkins, A., 37th Va. Cav., died January 8, '65. 
2021. Thompson, B. N. (or N. N.), Co. F, 41st Miss. Inf., died June 3, '65. 

851. Thompson, Charles R., Co. E, ist Md. Cav., died January 23, '65. 
1326. Thompson, G.. Co. C. 27th Bat. Cav., died February 17, '65. 
1 1 18. Thompson, I. J., Co. I, 14th Tenn. Cav., died February 8, '65. 

584. Thompson, J. D., Co. H, 28th Ala. Inf., died December 9, '64. 
1410. Thompson, J. H., Co. G, 66th Ga. Inf., died February 25, '65. 

253. Thompson, N. S., Co. K, 7th Fla. Inf., died September 17, '64. 
541. Thompson, O. D., Co. H. — Conf. Cav., died December i, '64. 



384 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

1362. Thompson, P., Co. E, 8th Va. Cav., died February 21, '65. 

908. Thompson, Simeon, Co. B, i8th Ala. Inf., died January 27, '65. 
1584. Thompson, W. J., Co. B, 3d Conf. Cav., died March 7, '65. 

853. Thomson, G. W., Co. E, 40th Ga. Inf., died January 23, '65. 
1421. Thorn, E. B., Co. K, 25th Ga. Inf., died February 24, '65. 

. Thorn, P. H., Co. D, 6th Miss. Inf., died March 14, '65. 

1267. Thornhill, WilHam, Co. C, 23d Ala. Inf., died February 15, '65. 
1762. Thornton. F. D., Co. I, loth Miss. Inf., died March 27, '65. 

2yy. Ihornton, J. W., Co. G, ist Tenn. Cav., died September 22,, '64. 

829. Tice, Fleming, Co. G, 21st Va. Cav., died January 21, '65. 

516. Tille, George, Co. D, 24th Tex. Inf., died November 26, '64 

609. Tincher, Albert, Co. B, 21st Va. Cav., died December 12, '64. 
1335- Tipton, R., Co. K. 4th Ala. Cav., died February 18, '65. 
1983. Tobias, B. R., Co. B, 37th Ala. Inf., died May 18, '65. 
1922. Tolan, James H., Co. C, 49th Tenn. Inf., died April 27, '65. 
1076. Tolson, George W., Co. K, ist Ga. Inf., died February 6, '65. 

204. Tolton, W. M., Co. F, i6th Va. Cav.. died May 21, '64. 

909. Tomley, G. H., Co. K, 28th Tenn. Inf., died January 27, "65. 
1681. Tomlin, Wesley, Co. B, loth Ala. Cav.. died March 16, '65. 
1701. Tomlinson, W. B., Co. A, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 18. '65. 

881. Tousley, I., Co. I, 3d Conf. Cav., died January 25, '65. 
1146. Townsend, J. R., Co. I, 15th Miss. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
96. Tracy, Peter, citizen of Virginia, died August 15, '63. 

697. Trainiim, J. F"., Co. C. 17th Ala. Inf., died January 3, '65. 

267. Trapp, John C, Co. G. ist Ga. Inf., died September 20. '64. 

236. Tricket, Michael F.. Co. A, 20th Va. Cav., died October 2, '64. 
1006. Triplet, J. J., Co. H. 19th Tenn. Inf., died February 2. '65. 
1 1 15. Tripp, S. I.. Co. K, 3d N. C. Cav., died February 8, '65. 

292. Trotten. J. W. B.. Co. E, 5th Va. Cav.. died September 10, '64. 
1029. Trusley, J., Co. B, 19th Tenn. Inf., died February 3, '65. 

897. Tucker, J. L., Co. C, 23d Ala. Inf., died January 2t„ '65. 

162. Tunstill, W.. Co. D, 7th Ala. Cav., died May 20, '64. 
1323. Turnage, W. J.. Co. G, i6th La. Inf., died February 18. '65. 
1743. Turner, Benjamin. Co. D, 7th Fla. Inf., died March 24, '65. 
1696. Turner, George, Co. E, 40th Miss. Inf., died March 18. '65. 

764. Turner. I D., Co. F. 19th S. C. Inf.. died January 14, '65. 

476. Turner. M. L., Co. F, 14th Tenn. Cav., died November 16, '64. 
1735. Turner, S. P.. Co. B. 13th Ky. Cav., died March 22, '65. 
1941. Turner, William, Co. A, 38th Bat. N. C. H. G., died May 7, '65. 
1338. Tylar, Pleasant, Co. H, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 19, '65. 
1047. Tyler, J. S., Co. I, 47th Tenn. Inf., died February 4, '65. 
1354- Tyson, C, Co. G, 41st Ga. Inf., died February 20, '65. 

303. Umphrey, John, Co. F, 40th Ga. Inf.. died October 12. '64. 
1927. Underwood, W. J.. Co. A, loth Ala. Cav., died April 29, '65. 

46. Unknown soldier. — Conf. , died October 11. '62,. 

19. Upchurch, Calvin, Co. G. 5th N. C. Cav., died September 4, '63. 
1010. Upchurch, John, Co. I. 39th Miss. Inf.. died January 5, '65. 



APPENDIX. 385 

No. of Grave. 

1946. Upright, John, N. C. State Reserves, died May 9, '65. 

749. Valentine, Joseph C, Co. H, 46th Miss. Inf., died January 11, '65. 

987. Vance, David E, Co. B, 8th Tenn. Cav., died January 2y, '65. 
1461. Vandike, C. E., Co. H, 21st Tenn. Cav., died February 27, '65. 
1779. Vanhoosar, L., died March 20, '65. 

1385. Vansant, W., Co. B, 23d Va. Cav., died February 22, '65. 
1698. Vaugh, R.. Co. B, loth Ky. Cav.. died March 18, '65. 

701. Vaughan, B., Co. B, ist Ga. Inf., died January 3, '65. 
1 106. Vaughan, I. M., Co. K, 25th Va. Cav., died February 8, '65. 
1887. Vaughn, Ambers, Co. E, loth Ala. Cav., died April 17, '65. 
1523. Vaughn, J. A.. Co. E, i6th S. C. Inf., died March 3, '65. 

747. Venable, W. T., Co. E, 55th Ala. Inf., died January 10, '65. 

Bid. Vesey, E. F., Co. K, 5th Miss. Inf., died January 19, '65. 

28. Vetulol, A. G., Co. G, ist Tenn. Cav., died September 24, '63. 
1208. Vick, Charlfs, Co. G, 27th Ala. Inf., died February 12, '65. 
'iZ77- Vickers, S., Co. H, 20th Miss. Inf., died February 22, '65. 
1489. Victory, L., Co. E, 12th Ga. Inf., died February 28, '65. 
64. Vincent, Osmon, 3d Conf. Cav., died November 15. '63. 
1 05 1. Vining, J. C, Co. C, i6th Ga. Cav., died February 5, '65. 

743. Vowell, Joseph H., Co. C, ist Ark. Inf., died January 11, '65. 

1691. Wade, Solomon, Co. C, Battery, died March 17, '65. 

1254. Wade, W. F., Co. I, ist Mo. Cav., died February 14, '65. 

647. Wagoner, Henry, Co. H, 54th N. C. Inf., died December 22, '64. 

207. Wain, M., Co. A, 19th Va. Cav., died August 16. '64. 
91. Wait, George, Co. K, 24th Tenn. Inf., died January 12, '64. 
1 717. Walch, John, Co. H, 6th Fla. Inf., died March 20, '65. 
1459. Wald, J., Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 27, "65. 
1417. Waldon, J., Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav., died February 24, '65. 
1262. Walker, B. F., Co. D, ist Ga. Inf., died February 16, '65. 
1885. Walker, D. O.. Co. I, 8th Tenn. Inf., died April 17, '65. 

227. Walker, J. H., Co. C, 23d Tenn. Inf., died September 2, '64. 

765. Walker, J. P.. Co. I. 14th Tenn. Cav., died January 14, '65. 
1642. Walker, John, citizen of Alabama, died March 13, '65. 

379. Walker, Levi, Co. D, 60th Va. Inf., died October 29, '64. 
1781. Walker, O. P., Co. K, 2d Ky Cav., died March 29, "65. 

793. Walker, Stanley, Co. D, 8th Ky. Cav., died January 17. '65. 
1534. Walker, T. J., Co. K, 13th Miss. Inf., died March 4, '65. 

321. Walker, W., Co. F, 36th Va. Inf., died October, '64. 
1363. Walker, W. M., Co. E, ist Miss. Inf., died February 21, '65. 

113. Walket, Capt., Co. E. 4th Tenn. Cav., died February 6, '64. 
1834. Wallace, R. H., Co. C, 32d Miss. Inf., died April 9, '65. 

150. Wallkall, J. N., Co. E, 25th Ark. Inf., died May 6, '64. 

181. Walls, J. P., Co. C, I2th Tenn. Cav., died June 29, "64. 
1974. Walstonhome, Thomas S., Co. B, 43d Miss. Inf., died May 16, '65. 
1928. Ward, A. E., citizen of East Tennessee, died j\Iay i, '65. 
1 134. Ward. W. W., Co. D, 12th La. Inf., died February 9, '65. 

607. Warden, Wilson, Co. C, 36th Va. Inf., died December 12, "64. 



386 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

484. Ware, G. W., Co. C, 23d Va. Cav., died November 18, '64. 

yji. Warfield, W., Co. A, ist Md. Cav., died January 14, '65. 

212. Warren, J. W., conscript of N. C, died August 20, '64. 

571. Warren, James H., Co. D, i8th Tenn. Inf., died December 7, '64. 

618. Warren, William J., Co. F, 47th Tenn. Inf., died December 15, '64. 
1358. Warrick, I. H., Co. K, 46th Ala. Inf., died February 20, '65. 

340. Waruble, Henry, Co. A, 56th Ga. Inf., died October 19, '64. 
1278. Washburn, S., Co. D, nth Ky. Cav., died February 15, '65. 
2015. Waters, E. F., Co. D, 46th Ga. Inf., died June 2, '65. 

814. Watkins, O. R., Co. C, 37th Tenn. Inf., died January 20, '65. 

254. Watson, A. M., Co. K, 29th N. C. Inf., died September 18, '64. 
33. Watson, J. A., citizen of Virginia, died October 4, '63. 

626. Watson, J. M.. Co. E, ist Ga. Inf., died December 17. '64. 

534. Watson, Thomas, Co. G, ist Tenn. Cav., died November 29. "64. 
86. Watts, J. A., Co. A, loth Ky. Inf., died December 19, '63. 

364. Waul, W. F., Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died October 26, '64. 
1942. Waydell, Addison, Co. I, 25th Va. Cav., died May 7, '65. 

644. Weaver, David, Co. A, 43d Ga. Inf., died December 21, '64. 

755. Weaver, J. W., died January, '65. 

1958. Weaver, John B., Co. E, 54th Ga. Cav., died May 12. '65. 
1932. Webb, John J., Co. I, 13th Va. Inf., died May 2, '65. 

266. Weese. A., citizen of Virginia, died September 23. '64. 

386. Weese, Isaac, Co. C, ist Ga. Inf., died October 31, '64. 
1745. Weldon, D. C, Co. D, 20th Ala. Inf., died March 24, '65. 

709. Wells, Columbus, 42d Ala. Inf., died January 5, '65. 

114. Wells, J., died February 6, "64. 
1 158. Wesley, J. W., Co. K, 2d Mo. Inf., died February 10, '65. 
1243. Wesson, L. L.. Co. I, 35th Ala. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

993. West, C. S., Co. I, i8th Miss. Inf., died February i, '65. 
1559. West, J. H., Co. B, 30th Tenn. Inf., died March 5, '65. 

541. West, W. O., Co. E, 20th Va. Cav., died December i, '64. 
1666. Whaley, A.. Co. I, 17th Ala. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

156. Whatley, A. C, Co. D, 3d Ga. Cav.. died May 13, '64. 
1866. Wheeler, A. J., Co. I. loth Tex. Inf., died April, '65. 

410. Wheeler, J. S , Co. A, conscript from Tenn., died November 6, '64. 

298. Wheetley, George, Co. D, 15th Miss. Inf.. died October 11, '64. 
15. Whetmore, H., Co. K, 4th Ala. Cav., died September 27, '63. 

117. Whettle, A., citizen of Virginia, died February 6, '64. 
2025. Whidden, Bennett, Co. B, 6th Fla. Inf., died June 4, '65. 
1 181. White, B. W., Co. H, 3d Tex. Inf., died February 11. '65. 

1304. White, H.. Co. I, ist Fla. Cav., died February 16, '65. 
1 153. White, J. M., Co. B, 7th Fla. Inf., died February 11, '65. 
1853. White, L. N., Co. K, 39th Ga. Inf., died April 11, '65. 

1464. White, Leonidas, Co. F, T6th Ala. Inf., died February 27, '65. 

395. Whitefield, Charles, Co. E, iSth Tex. Cav., died November 3, '64. 

1906. Whitfield, B. I., Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died April 23, '65. 

1828. Whitfield, J. S. M., Co. A. 13th Ky. Cav.. died April 7, '65. 



APPENDIX. 3S7 

No. of Grave. 

1027. Whitfield, W., Co. D, 44th Tenn. Inf., died Februar}- 3, '65. 
1483. Widham, B. F., Co. E, 38th Ala. Inf., died February 28, '65. 
1995. Widham, S. W., Co. F, 23d Miss. Inf., died May 22, '65. 
1632. Widner, Elijah. Co. A, 21st Va. Cav., died March 12, '65. 
1294. Wiggins, E. H., Co. L, nth Ala. Cav., died February 16, '65. 

555. Wiggins, R. L., Co. F, 36th Ala. Inf., died December 5, '64. 

294. Wilbourn, John F., Co. F, 22d Va. Cav., died October 10, '64. 

173. Wilcox, S. B., Co. E, 1st Ky. Cav., died June 3, '64. 

314. Wilder, W., Co. K, 4th Fla. Inf., died October 15, '64. 
1805. Wildman, W., Co. G, 55th Ala. Inf., died April 2, '65. 
2002. Wilfong, C. S., Co. E, 3d N. C. Inf., died May 26, '65. 

633. Wilkes, John W., Co. F, 8th S. C. Inf., died December 19, '64. 
1 150. Wilkinson, J. B., 57th Ala. Inf., died February 9, '65. 
1986. Willard, John, Co. H, 23d Bat. Va. Inf., died May 19, '65. 
1565. Wilkox, J. P., Co. A, 49th Tenn. Inf., died March 5, '65. 
1528. Willet, William, Co. D, i8th Ala. Inf., died March 3, '65. 
1979. William, George F., Co. E, 63d Ala. Inf., died May 17, '6^ 

246. Williams, A. P., Co. H, 15th Tenn. Cav., died September 16, '64. 
1495. Williams. A. S., Co. I, 59th Tenn. Inf., died March i, '65. 
1547. Williams, B. F., conscript of Kentucky, died March 5, '65. 
1227. Williams, B. T., Co. I. 15th Tenn. Cav., died February 14, '65. 
1382. Williams, E. F., Co. D, 5th Ga. Cav., died February 22, "65. 

164. Williams, E. J., Co. K, 36th Ga. Inf.. died May 22, '64. 
1846. Williams, E. M., Co. I. loth Ky. Inf , died April 9, '65. 
1952. Williams, G. A., Co. C, 5th Miss. Cav., died May 10, '65. 
1007. Williams, G. W., Co. B. ist Mo. Cav., died February 2, '65. 
1673. Williams, J.. Co. F, 19th Va. Cav.. died March 15, '65. 
1425. Williams, J. B., Dardon's Bat., died February 25, '65. 
1907. Williams, John B., Co. B, 56th Tenn. Inf., died April 23. '65. 

366. Williams, John D., Co. D, 42d Ala. Inf., died October 25, '64. 
1269. Williams, Luke B., Co. C, ist Bat. S. S. Troops, died Feb. 15, '65. 
1892. Williams, Nelson, Co. F, 65th Ga. Inf., died April 17, '65. 
1609. Williams. O.. Co. F, 20th Ala. Inf., died March 9, '65. 
1396. Williams, R. J., Co. C, 2d Ala. Cav., died February 23, '65. 

338. Williams, Serg. W. L., Co. D, i6th Tenn. Cav., died October 18, '64. 

495. Williams, Samuel. Co. A, 23d Va. Cav., died November 20, '64. 
1259. Williams, W. H., Co. F, 6th Mo. Inf., died February 15. '65. 
7. Williamson, I., Co. T, 8th Ky. Cav., died August 17, '63. 

132. Willis, Rice, ist Ky. Cav., died '65. 
1998. Willis, J. L., Co. I. 31st Ala. Inf.. died May 25, '65. 

836. Willoughby, Andrew, Co. A, 54th Ala. Inf., died January 22, '65. 

604. Wilson, A., Co. F, 42d Ala. Inf., died December 12, '64. 
1384. Wilson, G. W., Co. G, 33d Ala. Inf., died February 22, '65. 

628 Wilson, George, Co. E, Gilmore's Bat., died December 18, '64. 
1451. Wilson, I. F., Co. A, 40th Ala. Inf., died February 26, '65. 

920. Wilson, J. C, Co. C, 24th S. C. Inf., died January 28, '65. 
1719. Wilson, Jackson, Co. B, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 23, 65. 



388 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

757- Wilson, John A., Co. A, Lewis's Ala. Bat., died January 5, '65. 

833. Wilson, Joseph R., Co. E, ist Fla. Inf., died January 21, '65. 
T454 (or 1434). Wilson, L. M., Co. B, 24l;h Tenn. Inf., died Feb. 26, '65. 

759. Wilson, Owen, Co. K, 7th Ala. Cav., died January 17, '65. Erased. 

795. Wilson, Owen, Co. K, 7th Ala. Inf., died March 17, '65. 

997. Wilson, P. P., Co. A, 66th Ga. Inf., died February 17, '65. 

104. Wilson, S., Co. B, 8th Va. Cav., died February 6, '64. 

^2^. Wilz, Samuel P., Co. I, 5th Conf. , died October, '64. 

533- Windson, James M., Co. H, i8th Ga. Inf., died December 4, '64. 
1 137. Wines, Hayton, Co. C, 19th Va. Cav., died February 9, '65. 

983. Wines, Jackson A., Co. C, 19th Va. Cav., died January 30, '65. 
1 172. Winfield, William, Co. A, 37th Bat. Va. Cav., died February 10, '65. 

257. Wingond, J. B., Co. H, 63d Ga. Inf., died September 20, '64. 
1858. Winnet, A. I., Co. I, 4th Tenn. Cav., died April 13, '65. 

142. Winstud, Ellis G., Co. E, 4th Ark. Inf., died April 22, '64. 

543. Wirt, Henr}', Co. C, 34th Va. Inf., died December 2, '64. 

930. Wisdom, J. W., Co. B, nth Tex. Cav., died January 28, '65. 

573. Wisecarver, W. H., Co. H, nth Va. Cav., died December 8, '64. 

927. Wiseman, S. C, Co. A, 29th Ga. Inf., died January 28, '65. 

473. Wissing, Henry, Co. G, Ga. Inf., died November 16, '64. 

184. Wolfe, J. N., Co. C, citizen of Virginia, died July 11, '64. 
1203. Wood, Jonathan, Co. B, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 12, '65. 
1616. Wood, N. D., Co. H, loth Ala. Cav.. died March 11, '65. 
1282. Woodall, J. A., Co. K, 4th Ala. Cav., died February 15, '65. 
1919. Woodall, William A., Co. A, 29th Ala. Inf., died April 26, '65. 
'1738. Woodrad, T. A., Co. E, loth Ky. Cav., died March 23, '65. 
1250. Woodruff, B. H., Co. G, 6th Ga. State Troops died February 14, '65. 
-214. Woodruff, Greene, Co. E, 46th Miss. Inf., died February 12, '65. 

483. Woodrum, John, Co. I, 6th Ga. Cav., died November 18, '64. 

138. Woodrum, R., 22d Va. Bat., died April 15, '64. 

438. Woods, R., 36th Miss. Inf., died November 9, "64. 

567. Woods, W. A., Co. A, 37th Va. Cav., died December 7, '64. 

662. Woodson, T., Co. .A, 9th Tex. Cav., died December 25, '64. 
1631. Woodward, B. E.. Co. A, 13th Ky. Cav., died March 12, '65. 

36. Woodward, , died October 3, '63. 

35. Woodward, Thomas, loth Ky. Cav., died October 4, '63. 

871. Woville, J. C. (or Wm.), Co. B, 43d Miss. Inf., died January 25, '05. 
1981. Wright, G. Y. M., Co. H, 4th Ala. Cav., died May 17, '65. 

450. Wright, Uriah, Co. G, Baltimore Art., died November 11, '64. 

63. Wright, W. B., Co. C, 6th Cav., died December 24, '63. 
1229. Wyatt, J. H., Co. I, 52d Tenn. Inf., died February 14, '65. 

380. Yancey, William, Co. H, ist Ark. Cav., died October 29, '64. 

860. Yarborough, Haz, Co. G, i6th Ga. Cav., died January 22, '65. 
1783. Yarbrough, A. I., Co. I, 4th La. Inf., died March 30, '65. 
1594. Yargin, W. F., Co. E, 34th Ga. Inf., died March 8, '65. 

158. Yeager, J. E., Co. K, 7th Ala. Cav., died May 17, '64. 
1956. Yeates, Green J., Co. I, ist Ala. Inf., died May 11, '65. 



APPENDIX. . 3S9 

No. of Grave. 

1310. Yerby, W., Woodward's Ala. Cav., died Februa'ry 17, '65. 

1522. Yete, J., Co. B, nth Tenn. Cav., died March 3, '65. 

462. Yonan, J., Co. K, ist Fla. Inf., died November 14, '64. 
1567. York, E. A., Co. K, 26th Tenn. Inf., died March 6, '65. 

642. Yost, E. L., Co. F, 22d Va. Cav., died November 21, "64. 
1318. Yother, T. J., Co. E, 65th Ga. Inf., died February 17, '65. 
1678. Youst, Francis, Co. B, 20th Va. Cav., died March 16, '65. 

423. Young, Peter, Co. G, 37th Va. Cav., died November 7, '64. 
1918. Young, W. H.. Co. B, 5th Miss. Cav., died April 28, "65. 
1521. Young, William A., Co. K, 46th Miss. Inf., died April 6< "65. 

Confederate Dead Buried at Camp Chase. 

Aggregate of Confederate dead buried at Camp Chase Cemetery 
from the following States: Alabama, 419; Arkansas, 23; Florida, 
63; Georgia, 301; Kentucky, 130; Louisiana, 45: Mississippi, 202; 
Missouri, 8; Maryland, 12; North Carolina, 86; South Carolina, 
69 ; Tennessee, 213 ; Texas. 18 ; Virginia. 267 1.856 

Burial of citizens from the following States : Virginia, 2,1 '• West 
Virginia, 11; Alabama, 4; Georgia, 5; Ohio, i; Louisiana. 2; Ten- 
nessee, 9 ; Kentucky, 8 ; South Carolina, i 78 

Burials from dififerent organizations. State not given loi 



2,035 
Buried in early part of the war in city cemetery, southeast of Colum- 
bus, from the following States: Kentucky. 16; Virginia, 22; Ten- 
nessee, 7; Alabama, 3; Texas. 8; South Carolina, i; Arkansas, 3; 
Louisiana, 5 ; Mississippi, 2 ; Florida, i ; and marked as citizens 
from Virginia, 14; West Virginia, 4; Kentucky. 4; Tennessee, i; 

from commands. States not given. 8 99 

Removed by their kindred and taken South 31 

Remainder removed and buried at Camp Chase 68 

Buried at- Camp Dennison, about twenty-five miles from Cincinnati. 

Ohio 116 

Removed by kindred and taken South 85 

Remainder taken to Camp Chase and reburied, from the following 
States : Alabama. S ; Tennessee, i ; Texas, 5 ; Arkansas, 2 ; Louisi- 
ana, II ; Mississippi, 4 31 

Total number now buried at Camp Chase 2,134 

Removed from Camp Chase at close of war 126 

Making total buried at Camp Chase 2,260 



390 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

CAMP DENNISON CEMETERY. 
Confederate Dead Buried at Camp Dennison, Ohio. 

No. of Grave. 

4. Baldwin, , unknown. 

72. Bergman, A., Co. C, Texas Rangers, died May 9, '62. 
25. Caraway, 1st Lt. James, iitli La., died April 27, '62. 

5. Carter, ist Lt. P. S., Co. I, 3d Miss., died April 20, '62. 

49. Cohoon, I St Lt. J. H., Co. N, Orleans Guard, died May i, '62. 
no. Copland, ist Lt. Wm., Co. B, 21st Ala., died May 26, '62. 

115. Field, E. R., Co. C, i8th La., died June 11, '62. 

20. Galier (N. T.), ist Lt. H. J., i8th La., died April 23, '62. 
15. Henry, James H., Co. F, ist Ark., died April 23, '62. 
53. Hubbard, Serg. Maj. T. H., 8th Ark., died May 3, '62. 

114. Jaco, Jeremiah, Co. B, 5th Tex., died June 18, "62. 

74. James, C. E., Co. C, Texas Rangers, died May 10, '62. 
17. Johnson, ist Lt. Edw., Co. H, 20th La., died April 29, '62. 
105. Jones, 1st Lt. A. B., Co. A, 17th La., died May 21, '62. 

6. Lampie (or Sample), Serg. Maj. B., 2d Tex. Rangers, died April 21, '62. 
48. Larey, ist Lt. S. C. P., Co. G, 9th Miss., died May i, '62. 

I. Martin, Henry, Co. F., 17th Ala., died May 17, '62. 

116. McClellan, J. R., Co. C, 55th Tenn., died June 17, '62. 
13. McNair, D., Co. D, 17th Ala. 

III. Mims, David L., Co. D, isth Miss., died May 31, '62. 
27. Mirley (or Worley), W. H., Co. F. 17th Ala., died April 27, '62. 
58. O'Brian, ist Lt. Jerry, Co. N, ist La., died May 5, '62. 
46. Pevy, 1st Lt. Allen, i6th La., died April 30, '62. 

41. Robinson, ist Lt. A., Co. F, 17th Ala., died April 29, '62. 
99. Rogarmore, ist Lt. T. M., Co. G, 17th La., died May 17, '62. 

7. Senley (or Sealey), E. G., 2d Tex. Rangers, died May 21, '62. 
104. Spaulding, ist Lt. Felix, Co. E, 17th Ala., died May 19, '62. 

76. Sylvester, ist Lt. Wm., Co. D, i6th La., died May 9, '62. 
37. Tighlman, William, Co. L 21st Ala., died April 27, '62. 
60. Tippits, 1st Lt. John M., Co. E, 17th La., died May 5, '62. 
87. Turney, ist Lt. J. R., Co. K, 2d Miss., died May 11, '62. 

COLUMBUS, OHIO. 

Confederate Dead Buried in the City Cemetery, Southeast of 
Columbus, Ohio. 

82. Albert, Joseph, Co. B, 6th Fla. , died March i, '63 

74. Allen, Lieut. E. R., ist Tex. Inf., died Feb. 11, '6^. 
12. Allen, 2d Lt. John F., ist Ala. Inf., died May 24, '62. 

8. Ausbourne, ist Lt. W. C, Ark. Heavy Art., died May 15, '62. 
124. Barnes, Math., citizen of W. Va., died June 23, '63. 

115. Barnes, Thomas J., citizen of Virginia, died June 13, ^62- 

42. Basham, A., 4Sth Va., Peterstown, died Oct. 5, '62. Rifled. 



APPENDIX. 391 

No. of Grave. 

18. Bean. J. G., 14th Va. Inf., died July 7, '62. 

S. Black, Lieut. Leonidas, 3d Tenn. Inf., died April 24, '62. 
84. Briden, Lieut. D. R, 24th Tex. Cav., died March 5, '63. ' 

(Taken by mistake and removed to Glover's Gap, Marion Co., Va.) 
72,- Candy, James, Hampshire Co., Va., died Feb. 9, '63. 
23. Caylor, T. J., Hampshire Co., Va., died July 28, '62. 
88. Cheatham, Marcellus, prisoner of war, died May 13, '63. 

I. Chields, Lieut. J. M., 3d Miss. Vols., died April 6, '62. 
96. Clark, John, Co. C, 3d Va. Cav., died April 6, '63. 

45. Clarke, Stephen, Randolph Co. prisoner, died Oct. 14, '62. 
116. Collins, Edwin, Co. B, 51st Inf., died June 16, '63. 

51. Cooper, G. F., prisoner Taylor Co., Va., died Nov. 5, '62. 

16. Cummins, John C, Harrison Co., Ky., died June 4, '62. Removed. 
118. Duninitz, William, citizen of Ky., died June 16, '63. 

77. Ellis, Taylor, Co. B, ist W. Tenn. Reg., died Feb. 16, '62,. 

54. Falkington, Geo. W., Marion Co., Va., died Nov. 23, '62. 

46. Ferguson, T. B., Simpson Co., Ky., died Oct. 14, '62. 

49. Fetterl, Benjamin, 3d Va. Cav., died Oct. 31, '62. 

29. Flint, Joseph, Co. I, Adger's Vol. Bat., died Sept. 16, '62. 

129. Ford, M., citizen of Virginia, died July 11, '62)- 

53. Fuller, William, citizen of Kentucky, died Nov. 14, '62. 
121. Gelford, Thomas, citizen of W. Va., died June 19, '63. 

55. Gellin, William, died November 24, '62. 

17. Graves, S. W., 9th La. Inf., died June 13, '62. 

64. Halliburton, John A., prisoner of war, died Jan. 31, '62,. 

126. Hamilton, John, sth Ky. Inf., died June 30, '63. 

131. Hanna, Nathan H., citizen of Virginia, died July 16, '63 
133. Hays, Corp. Lawson, prisoner, died July 20, '63. 

80. Henry, Lieut. L. F., 19th Ark. Inf., died Feb. 26, '63. 
22. Hill, G. W., citizen of Monroe Co., Va., died July 28, '62. 

50. Jones, William, citizen of Va., died November 2, '62. 
128. Jordon, Daniel, citizen of Virginia, died July 2, '63. 

72. Kennedy, John, 23d Ky. Vols., died Feb. 8, '63. 
57. Ketterman, Abraham, Hardy Co., Va., died Dec. 15, '62. 
III. Kieser, William, prisoner of war, died May 28, '63. 
34. Lake, Jacob, Co. G, 90th Tenn. Inf., died Sept. 24, '62. 

130. Lawler, J. F., Sth Con. Cav., died July 15, '63. 

108. Leslie, J. U., Co. D, 65th Va. Inf., died May 3, '63. 

19. Lilley, James, citizen of Mercer Co., Va., died July 12, '62. 
67. Lindsey, Capt. J. S., 4th Tenn. Cav., died Feb. 6, '63. 

132. Lindsey, William, Co. G, 36th Ala. Inf., died July 18, '6^. 
60 Lykins, James, Co. A., 12th Ky. Cav., died Jan. 9, '63. 
98. Lynch, W. H., Co. H, ist S. C. Cav., died April 7, "63. 
86. Malone, Lt. W. S.. Co. E, 6th Tex. Inf., died May 11, '63. 

48. Malott, Reyon, citizen of Marion Co., Va., died Oct. 30, '62. Removed. 

94. McKeon, Lieut. F. G., 19th Ark. , died May 26, '63. 

10. McMurry, ist Lt. Robert, Co. F, 53d Tenn. Inf., died May 23, '62. 
Removed. 1 



392 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

7. Mooney, Jacob, iSth La. Inf., died May 13, '62. 

13. Mundy, Thomas, 9th La. Inf., died May 28, '62. 

87. Murray, 2d Lt. W. T., Co. D, 24tli Tex. Cav., died May 11, '63. 

32. Osburn, Wm., Bullitt's Ky. Inf., died September 22, '62. 

90. Palmer, John, prisoner of war, died May 17, '63. 

69. Parker, ist Lt. W. S., Co. I, 7th Tex. Cav., died February 7, '63. 

59. Paul, Joseph B., died December 25, '62. 

79- Philips, Capt. W. W., 6th Tex. Inf., died Feb. 13, '63. 

28. Phophet, J., 2d Va. Inf., died September 3, '62. 

113. Pintzer, Wm., citizen of Wayne Co., Va., died June 4, '63 

78. Rankin, Isaac, citizen of Tenn., died Feb. 19, '63. 

123. Ravinscroft, Humphrey, citizen of Ky., died June 23, '63. 

85. Roberts, I. S., Co. K, 9th Ky. Inf., died May 7, '63. 

120. Roberts, J. A., citizen of Virginia, died June 16, '63. 

119. Roberts, William, citizen of Virginia, died June 16, '62,. 

106. Rucker, James, ist Va. , died April 26, '63. 

II. Runner, Isaac, citizen of Frederick Co., Va., died May 26, '62. 
2,7- Russell, J. W., 2ist Va. Inf., died September 28, '62. 
47. Rutherford, John, Taylor Co., Va., died Oct. 26, '62. 

107. Sandefur, Charles, Co. B. 4th Ky. Inf., died May 3, '63. Removed, 
no. Simonise, Josiah, Co. A, 6th Ky. Inf., died May 21, '63. 

127. Sloas, Franklin, — Ky. , died July 2, '63. 

117. Smith (or Jonas), James, citizen of Va., died June 16, "63. 

122. Smith, William, died June 20. '63. 

112. Spere, Wm., citizen of Floyd Co., Ky., died May 30, '62,. 

25. Standiford. Geo., prisoner from Va., died August 12, '62. 

27. Steagall, B. F.. 9th La. Inf.. died August 30, '62. 

92. Stilzer, J. A., Co. A.. 9th Ky. Cav , died March 20, '62,- 
125. Tato, T. S., 2d Ky. Cav., died June 20, '63. 

68. Thomas, 3d Lt. John, 25th Tex. Cav., died Feb. 6, '63. 
4. Thompson, Albert, 36th Va. Inf., died April 9, '62. 

134. Tidwell, G.. 22d Ala. Inf., died July 27, '62. 

3. Tipps, Lieut. Thomas J.. 41st Tenn. Inf., died April 9, '62. 
20. Tolar, William H., 9th La. Inf., died July 20, '62. 
15. Walantine, George, citizen of Va., died June 3, '62. 
109. Walker, James. Co. G, i6th Va. Cav., died May 4, '63. 
41. Wallace, Corp. M. W., 17th Batt. Va. Cav., died October 4, '62. 
39. Warner, J. W., citizen of Ky.. died September 30, '62. 
52. Weans, James, Co. C, 7th Ky. Inf., died Nov. 5, '62. 
75. Weatherbee, Lieut Jas. M., 3d Tex. Inf., died Feb. 11, '63. 

135. Wells, J., Co. E., 1st Ky. Cav, died July 27, '63. 

2. White, 2d Lt. R. B.. 14th Miss. Inf., died April 9, '62. 

6. Willes, Capt. J. H., 51st Va. Inf., died May 3, '62. 
56. Windsor, Isaac, prisoner of war, died December 11, '62. 
■93. Wygant, J. W., citizen of W. Va., died May 22, '62. 



APPENDIX. 393 

JOHNSON'S ISLAND, NEAR SANDUSKY, OHIO. 

Confederate Dead Buried in the "Confederate Cemetery" at John- 
son's Island, Near Sandusky, Ohio. 

No. of Grave. 

i6o. Alexander, Lieut. F. (or T.) J., Co. C, 4tli Ala. Bat., died Feb. 15, '64. 

2,^. Anderson, B., Mo. S. C , died February 14, '63. 

156. Archibald, Capt. A. B., Co. D, 8th Conf. Cav., died February 6, '64. 
115. Armfield, Capt. M. D., Co. B, nth N. C. Inf., died December 3, '62,. 
123. Arrington, Lieut. J. D., Co. H, 32d N. C. Inf., died December 26, '63. 

78. Asbury (or Ashby), J., Kentucky , died October 27, '62. 

90. Bacon, Capt. Mark, Co. D. 60th Tenn. Inf., died December 8, '63. 
131. Barnes, Capt. N. T., Co. E, loth Conf. Cav., died January 9, '64. 

13. Barnett, Lieut. Col. Joel, 9th Bat. La. Cav., died November 7, '63. 
159. Baya, Lieut. Francis, Co. H, 2d Fla. Inf., died February 23, '64. 

168. Bisell (or Mizell), Capt. Joshua, Co. G, 8th Fla. Inf., died April 10, '64. 
122. Blount, Lieut. B. J., Co. H. S5th N. C. Inf.. died December 20, '63. 
180. Brigham, Lieut. John F., Co. E, I4lh Tenn., died June i, '65. 

93. Cabbie (or Gabble), Private Hugh, Co. E, 5th Ky., died Nov. 2, '63. 
152. Campbell, Col. J. B. (or J. P.), 27th Miss. Inf., died February 4. '64. 
105. Canoway, Private J. D., i6th Va. Cav., died January 14. '64. 

94 Cash (or Gash), Lieut. J. B., 62d N. C. Inf.. died October 30. '63. 

22. Cassaway, J. D. 
126. Chormley, Samuel, Blount Co., Tenn., died January 9, '65. 

72. Christian, D., Co. E, 128th Va., died October 12, '62. 

47. Cole, Private Peter, 6th Va. Inf., died November 22,. '62. 
119. Coleman, Lieut. F. G. W., 7th Miss. Art., died December 8, '62,. 

61. Collier, Lieut. J. W , loth Ky. Inf., died December 3, '63. 
191. Colter J. (or C. Colter), citizen of M'sville, Tenn., died Sept. 22, '64. 
3. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
4 Confederate soldier, unknown. 

5. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

6. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

7. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
9. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

11. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

12. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

14. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
17. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
23 Confederate soldier, unknown. 

27. Confederate soldier, unknown, died September 30, '63. 

35. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

36. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
27. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
39. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

39. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

40. Confederate soldier, unknown. 



394 'I'HE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

41. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

42. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

43. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

44. Confederate soldier, unknown, died November 2\, '63. 

45. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

46. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

48. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

49. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

50. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
52. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

52. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

53. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

54. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

55. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

56. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

57. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

58. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
62. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

64. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

65. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

66. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
71. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
76. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
yj. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

80. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

81. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
85. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

87. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

88. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
91. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
97. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

202. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
203 Confederate soldier, unknown. 

204. Confederate soldier, unknown. 

205. Confederate soldier, unknown. 
206; Confederate soldier, unknown. 

141. Cooper, Capt. F. R, Co. K, 52d Ga. Inf., died February 2, '64. 

21. Copass, Lieut. R. D., Co. E, 6th Tenn. Inf., died August 29, '62,. 
145. Coppege, Lt. F. T. (or F.), — Tenn. Inf. or loth Mo., died Dec 20, '64,. 
190. Cresswell, Lieut. Henderson H., Freeman's Reg., died Sept. 12, '64. 

I. Cruggs (or Scroggs), Col. J. E., 8sth Va., died November 8, '63. 
102. Davis, Private M. W., 3Sth Miss. Inf., died January 14, '65. 
III. Dawson, Lieut. H. B., Co. A, 17th Ga. Inf., died December 22, '63 
184. Day, Capt. J. W., Co. D, S5th Ga. Inf., died May 7, '64. 
157. Dean, Lieut. J., Co. H, citizen of Tenn. or 28th Tenn , died Feb. 14, '64.. 

29. Dotson, Lieut. J. M., loth Tenn. Cav., died September 30, '63. 

68. Dow, John, Pulaski, Ohio. 



APPENDIX. 395 

No. of Grave. 

146. Dungan (or Duncan), Private J. L.. 22d Va. or King's Art., died 

December 21, '64. 
75. Fox, Col. Samuel, died October 22, '62. 

143. Frazier, A. F. (or A. J.), Co. H, 15th Miss, or 2d Ky., died Dec. 12, '64. 
195. Gamble, 2d Lt. Robert, Co. G, gth Ala. Inf., died November 2, '64. 

70. Gibson, Lieut. E., nth Ark. Inf., died August 12, '62. 
2,2. Gillespie, Capt. C. W., Co. D., 66th N. C. Cav., died September 9, '63. 
148. Gobeau (or Gobo), Lieut. J. J., Co. B, loth Miss. Inf. or King's Art., 
died February 26, '65. 

83. Graham, ist Lt. S. R., Co. I, 3d Tex. Cav., died September 28, '62,. 
38. Gregory, Capt. J. W., 9th Va. Inf., died November 21, %2i- 

T54. Hamilton, Capt. S. V. (or J. E.), Co. B, 2d Choctaw or Ind. Cav., 
died February 4, '64. 

98. Handy, M. R., citizen of Hopkins Co., Ky., died February 28, '63. 

19. Hansin, Lieut. W. E., ist Ga. Inf., died August 20, '62- 

28. Harden, Lieut. W. P., 5th N. C. Inf., died September 30, '63. 

92. Hardy, Capt. J. B., 15th Ark., died November 12, '63. 
113. Hardy, Capt. J. B., Co. I, 5th Ark. Inf., died November 12, "63. 
135. Harp, Lieut. R. C. (or B. J.), Co. I, 25th Tenn., died January 12, '64. 
107. Hazzard, Capt. J. B., 24th Ala. Inf., died December 31, '63. 
183. Helton (or Hilton), Capt. W. L., Co. F, 23d N. C. Inf.. died May 7, '64. 

177. Henagan, Col. John W., 8th S. C. Inf., died April 25, '65. 

178. Henken, ist Lt. J. M., Co. K, 12th S. C. Inf., died May 12, '65. 

84. Henry, Capt. S. W., 19th Tenn. Cav., died October 9, '63. 

60. Herrin, Daniel (or John), Poindexter's Mo. Cav., died Jan. 16, '62- 
^?,2i- High, Lieut. J. Q., ist Ark. Bat. Inf., died January 12, '64. 
197. Hill, Capt. J. M., Co. G, Dobbin's Ark. Cav., died January 18 '65. 
151. Hill, Lieut. John W., Co. L. 9th or 19th Va. Inf., died February 3, '64. 

69. Hodges, R. (or J. B.), Memphis, Tenn., died July 24, '62. 
174. Holt, Lieut. E. B., Lexington, N. C, died April 22, '65. 
125. Holt, Lieut. John (or James C), Co. G, 61 st Tenn., died Jan. 6, '65. 
201. Hood, Adjt. J. L., 59th Va. Inf., died May i, '65. 

15. Hudson, Lieut. William J., 2d N. C. Inf., died August 5, '63. 

25. Huffstettler, Lieut. J., ist Bat. Ark. Inf., died September 14, '63. 

89. J. R. H. 

24. Jackson, C. B., Guerrilla, Va.. died September 8, '63. 
no. Jackson, Capt. James R., Co. H, 38th Ala. Inf., died December 20, '63. 
187. Jacques, Lieut. J. W., Co. F, 24th Tenn., died June 25, '64. 

31. Jetter (or Jeters). S. G., Co. H, 31st Ala. Inf., died September 10, '63. 

95. Johnson, Capt. J. W., Green's R. (Mo.) S. G.'s., died October 31, '62. 

51. Johnson, Private Wm. (or W. J.), Poindexter's Mo. Cav.. died Dec. 
T3, '62. 
112. Johnston. Lieut. D. D., Co. A, 48th Tenn. Inf , died December 3, '63. 

63. Kean. Capt. John M., 12th La. Bat. Art., died November 21, '63. 

30. Keller, D. D., 2d Tenn. Cav., died September 12, '62. 
104. Kelley, Lieut. A., loth Ark. Inf., died January 4, '64. 

144. Killem, Lieut. W. E., Co. H, 45th Va. Inf., died December 13, '64. 



396 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

No. of Grave. 

96. King, J. N. D., Co. K, 9th Ga. Inf., died November 5, '63 
130. Land, Lieut. J. L, Co. A, 24th Ga. Inf., died January 11, "64. 
167. Lane, Lieut. P. W., 23d Ark. Inf, died March 30, '64. 
179. Lash, Maj. J. A., 4th Fla. Inf., died May 21, '65. 

116. Lewis, Capt. E. (or G.) W., Co. C, 9th Bat. La. Cav., died Dec. 3, '63. 
118. Ligon, Lieut. J. T., 53d Va. Inf. or 23d Ark., died December 9, '63. 
166. Lock, Lieut. B. F., Co. E, 4th Ark., died March 18, "64. 
134. Long, Lieut. J. C. (or J. P.), Co. I, 62d N. C. Inf., died Jan. 12, '64. 

162. Love, I St Lt. R. C, Co. K, ist Miss. Art. or 6th Ga., died March 3, '64. 
150. Lowis (or Lewis), Capt. T. J., Co. C, 3d Va. Inf., died April 25, '65. 
124. Lowshe, Lieut. Jos. (or Jas.), Co. C, i8th Miss. Cav., died Dec. 25, '64. 
176. Mackin (or Mankin), Lieut. Peter, Co. I, i6th Miss. Inf., died May 

17, '65. 
100. Matlock, Col. Charles H., 4th Miss., died December 9, '64. 
82. McBride, Lieut. J. A., Co. H, 6oth Tenn. Inf., died September 22. '63. 
132. McElroy, Lieut. John F., Co. F, 24th Ga. Inf , died October 26, '62. 
109. Mcllay, Lieut. D. H., Co. D, 46th Ala. Inf., died January i, '64. 

188. McRae, 2d Lt. J. W., Co. E, 67th Ga., died August 6, '64. 

67. McWhirter, Capt. S. W., Co. H, 3d Miss. Inf., died August 29, '62. 

199. Michael, Lieut. W. H., 59th Va. Inf., died June 18, '65. 
106. Middlebrooks, Capt. J., 40th Ga. Inf , died January 2, '64. 
194. Miller, 3d Lt. J., Williams's Ark. Cav., died October i, '64. 
127. Moore, Lieut. J. W., Co. B, 25th Ala. Inf., died January 21, '65, 

147. Moore, 2d Lt. S. T., Co. F, King's R. Ala. Inf. or King's Art., died 

January 6, '65. 
59 More, E. L. 

193. Morris, Lieut. C. B., Co. I, 9th Ala. Inf. or 9th La., died Sept. 27, '64. 
99. Morrison, Private E, 8th Ala. Inf., died February 11, '63. 
158. Nash, Lieut. C. B. (or C. E.), Co. H, 30th Miss. Inf. or 6th La., died 
February 15, '64. 

163. Nichols (or Nicholas), Capt. P., Co. B, nth Bat. N. C. Inf., died 

February 28, '64. 
170. Nickell, Surg. J. J., 2d Ky. Mounted Rifles, died September 2, '64. 
196. Noland (or Nolan), Lt. P. J., English's Miss. Bat., died Nov. 6, '64. 

189. Norton, Lieut. W. P., Co. D, 22d N. C. Inf., died September 4, '64, 
136. Norwood, Lieut. W. S., Co. E, 6th S. C. Inf., died January 17, '64. 

18. Nullins (or Mullins), Lieut. J. W., ist Miss. Inf., died Sept. 7, '63. 

86. Orr, Lieut. E. M., 62d N. C. Inf., died October 21, '62,. 
169. Pankey, Lieut. S. H., 49th Ala. Inf, died April 12, '64. 
129. Peal, Lieut. William, Co. C, nth Miss., died February 17, "65. 

10. Peden, 2d Lt. J. P., Hamilton's Bat., died November 19, '63. 
161. Peel, Capt. M. C, 8th Ark. Inf, died February 26, '64. 
173. Phillips, 2d Lt. W. E., 4th Ala. Cav. or Forrest's Cav., died Feb. 18, '65 

200. Pitt, 2d Lt. A. G., Co. K, 20th Tenn. Inf., died April or May 4, '65. 
175. Porter, Capt. W. J., Co. D, 6ist Ala. Inf., died April 23, '65. 

186. Puckett, Lt. E. N., Co. K, 12th Ark. Inf. or 21st Ark., died June 18, '64. 
loi. R. E. M. 



APPENDIX. 397 

No. of Grave. 

139. Rabenan, Capt. P. J., 5th Ala. or La. Inf., died January 31, '64. 

172. Randall, Lieut. Willis, Co. G, 5^d N. C. Inf., died December 31, '64. 

72. Rasins (or Rains), T., Co. C, 46th Va., died October 14, '62. 

79. Reeves, J. (or M.), Co. I, ist Ga. Cav., died October 30, "62. 
198. Reidy (or Reading), M. C, Co. G, nth Ky. Cav. or ist Ky., died 
February 27, '65. 

164. Rolling (or Bowling), Lieut. R. P., Co. H, 6th Ga. Cav. or Miss. 
Art., died March 3, '64. 
192. Ruffin, Lt. Thos., Co. D, 4th N. C. Cav. or 59th N. C, died Sept. 22,, '64. 

74. S. W. C. 

128. Scott, 2d Lt. D. L., Co. I, 3d Mo. Cav., died February 11, '65. 
121. Shuler, Capt. J. G., Co. H, sth Fla. Inf., died December 11, '63. 

140. Sisk, R. H., citizen, died February i, "64. 

114. Skidmore, Lieut. W. T.. Co. D, 4th Ala. Cav., died November 27, '63. 
185. Starns, Lieut, or Capt. B. B., Co. B, 9th Ala. Cav. or 9th La., died 

May 21, '64. 
149. Stephens, Lieut. W. A., Co. K, 46th Ala. Inf., died March 15, '65. 

20. Stephenson, Capt. H. D., Co. A, 15th Ark. Inf., died August 21, '62,. 
138. Sullins, Capt. S. P., 1st Ala. Inf., died January 21, '64. 
103. Swift, Lieut. W. N., 34th Ga. Inf., died January i, '64. 
155. Swink, Lieut. G. W. (or E. W.), Co. K, 8th Va. Inf., died Feb. 13, '64. 
120. Threadgill, Lieut. J. E., Co. H, 12th Ark. Inf., died December 8, '63. 
2. Tuggle, Capt. C. M., Co. H., 3Sth Ga. Inf., died November 6, '63. 
8. Upchurch, Capt. A. E., S5th N. C. Inf , died November 9, "63. 
108. Vaun, Capt. J. P., Co. E, Bell's R. Ark. Inf., died December 25, '6t,. 

34. Veasey (M. W.), W. W., loth Ky. Cav., died February 11, '62,. 
142. Watson, Adjt. W. E., ist Tenn. Inf., died February 7, '64. 

16. Webb, Capt. D. C, ist Ala. Cav., died July 26, '6t,. 
171. Webb, Capt. James E., 8th Ark., died December 24, '64. 
137. Weeks, 2d Lt. R. -K. C, Co. F, 4th Fla. Inf., died January 17. "64. 
153- Welch, Lieut. John, Co. B, 40th Va. Inf., died February 4, "64. 
182. Wilkinson, Lieut. H., Co. B, 9th Va. Inf., died April 21. "64. 
117. Williams, Lieut. J. N., 6th Miss. Inf., died December 8, '63. 

26. Williams, Lieut. L. B., 63d N. C. Inf., died September 29. "63. 
165. Wood, Lieut. J. B , Co. G, loth C. S. Cav. or loth C. Cav., died 

March 16, '64. 
181. Wynn, Capt. W. W. (or W. H. Winn), Co. G, 64th Va. Inf., died 
April 20, '64. 

Buried at Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, Ohio : From Kentucky, 
7; Virginia, 18; Georgia, 13; North Carolina, 17; South Carolina, 
3; Louisiana, 3; Alabama, 19; Mississippi, 16; Arkansas, 16; Ten- 
nessee, 17; Missouri, 5; Ohio, i; Texas, i; Florida. 5 141 

Names unknown marked as Confederate soldiers 56 

iMiscellaneous commands, States not mentioned 9 

206 



398 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND. 
List of Dead Buried in Frederick County, Md. 

Forty unknown in two trenches. Buried on top of Crampton Gap, in 
Paget's field, east of a little house. 

Lieut. Col. Lamar, Legion of Georgia ; Lieut. Thompson ; two unknown. 
Buried in northeast corner of graveyard back of German Reformed Church, 
at Burkittsville. 

Two unknown. Buried under a large oak tree, southeast of Mr. 
Horine's house, near Burkittsville. 

Fifty-nine unknown. Buried in Samuel Whitnight's lot, on east side of 
Crampton's Gap. 

Two unknown. Buried twenty rods west of road on Manuel Fink's 
land and east side of Crampton Gap. 

One unknown. Buried one hundred and fifty yards north of African 
Church, near a log along the road. 

Two unknown. Buried on top of Crampton Gap, on south side of and 
near the forks of the road. 

Benjamin Mell, ist Georgia, died October 21, 1862; Lieut. Thrashei, 
Legion of Maryland. Burned in northwest corner of Episcopal grave- 
yard, east of Petersville. 

One unknown. Buried near Persimmon Spring, above Weverton, close 
to cedars. 

One unknown, of Virginia. Buried in Weverton Hospital graveyard. 

One unknown. Buried near Ogleton's house, a colored man living along 
the east side of mountain north of Weverton. 

One unknown. Buried in the old tobacco patch above Ogleton's. 

Franklin Black and Seamore Hammond, of Virginia; one unknown. 
Buried in M. E. Graveyard in Buckeyestown. 

One unknown. Buried on towpath at Nolend's Ferry, supposed to be 
washed away. 

Adam Eberly, of Virginia, and one unknown. Buried on J. T. Worthing- 
ton's farm, near Monocacy bridge, and on east side of creek. 

One box of bones of unknown. Gathered by Mr. Thomas on his farm 
and interred by him on his farm, near Monocacy bridge, and on east side 
of creek. 

One unknown. Buried in John Hagan's garden, one mile west of 
Frederick, along the pike. 

John McCausland, of Georgia. Buried one hundred yards west ot 
Reel's Mill and near a locust stump and flint stone and one mile east of 
Frederick Junction on right-hand side of railroad near a run. 

Two unknown. Buried in Peter Beekley's uppermost field. 

Fifty unknown in two trenches. Buried in southeast corner of John H. 
Beekley's field, on north of old Middletown road • 

Three unknown. Buried in John H. Beekley's field, close along the fence 
and directly opposite to Martshouse. 

Four unknown. Buried in Lewis Hutzel's lot. below Wise's. 



APPENDIX. 399 

One unknown. Buried in John H. Beekley's held and directly opposite 
Cofifman's house. 

Dr. Joe, of North Carolina. Buried one hundred and fifty yards below 
Coffman's house and close along the fence and in John H. Beekley's field. 

Four unknown. Buried in Jonas Beeklej^'s field. 

One unknown. Buried in John H. Beekley's meadow. 

Two unknown. Buried in Keplinger's woods, near a large white oak 
along the road and just below Jones's house. 

Lieut. Marshall Kolbs, of Georgia. Buried ten feet east of a locust tree 
and near a gully in Michael's meadow, three miles south of Middletown, 
and on east side of Catoctin Creek. 

Two unknown. Buried in Mount Tabor Church graveyard, close along 
the road and opposite to a large, white oak tree. 

One unknown. Buried in northeast corner of Joseph Caver's orchard 
field along the road. 

Ten unknown. Buried along the stone pile twenty steps southwest of 
Solomon Houpt's stable. 

Six unknown. Buried on Dean's mountain lot, south of Mumford's 
lot ; bones scattered and skulls exposed. 

Six unknown. Buried on north end of Conrad Beekley's mountain lot, 
near the line between Beekley and Houpt ; skulls and bones scattered 
about. 

Six unknown. Buried on Philip Flook's mountain land, on northwest 
of and joining Koogle's land. 

Seventeen unknown. Buried on Adam Koogle's mountain field, joining 
pike, covered nicely and not been disturbed. 

G. Rowe, Co. B, 26th Ga. ; O. M. Fontwot. Co. F, 8th La. ; O. Crisolin, 
Co. E, 5th La. ; C. W. Clark, Co. H, 13th Ga. : H. J. Hobson, Co. D, 12th 
Ga. ; W. A. Lewis, Co. G, 13th Ga. ; W. J. Sanders, Co. E, 9th La. ; J. 
Higgins, Co. L 6th La. ; T. B. Heath, Co. E, 12th Ga. ; T. Kanghorm, 
Co. F, i2th Ga ; G. W. Miller, Co. E, 8th La. ; W. A. French, Co. A, 17th 
Va. ; W. D. Coleman, Co. D, 21st Va. ; Z. G. Collins, Co. K, 6ist Ga. ; W. 
McBride, Co. H, 8th La. ; G. S. Roberts, Co. H. 26th Ga. : W. H. Candles, 
Co. D, I2th Ga. ; M. Joiner, Co. E, 12th Ga. ; J. M. Ritchie. Co. B, 9th La. ; 
J. K. Dilworth, Co. G, 17th Va. : J. E. Fulgum, Co. E, 12th Ga. : J. Eason, 
Co. H, 30th N. C. : Capt. J. P. Graves, Co. B, ist La.; W. Belcher, Co. C, 
22d Va. ; T. W. Stamps, Co. A, 12th Ga. : J. Anderson, Co. F, 9th La.; 
D. Curry, Co. K, 6th La. ; A, Allen, Co. H, 17th Va. Cav. ; A. G. Park, 
Co. G, 17th Va. Cav. ; E. Slay, Co. C, 12th Ga. ; Z. Stanford, Co. A, 12th 
Ga ; H. H. Hardney, Co. K, 13th Ga. : J. H. Gary, Co. G. 38th Ga. ; G. W. 
Boldwright, Co. E, 12th Ga. ; T. Dix, Co. K. 13th Ga. : C. B. Smith, Co. 
F, 45th N. C. ; F. Loferty, Co. F, 9th La. ; W. T. Goodman, Co. D, 48th 
Va.: G. Miller, Co. F, 21st Ga. ; J. H. Knight, Co. B, 12th Ga. ; W. R. 
Wise, Co. K, 13th Ga. ; S. M. Jackson, Co. F, 20th N. C. ; D. McDonald, 
Co. C, 7th La.; M. Montgomery, Co. G, 8th La.; A. J. Tamming; A. 
Holder, Co. H, 20th N. C. ; E. Lay, Co. C, 12th Ga. ; J. D. Langferd, Co 
'G, 13th Ga. ; J. D. Show, Co. D, 6oth Ga. ; W. Davis, Co. A. 6oth Ga. ; P. 



400 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

McGee, Co. A, 4th Ga. ; G. Link, Co. D, 9th La.; Patrick McGuire, Co. 
C, 7th La.; S. Kirkard, Co. C, sth Ala.; D. W. Harvey, Co. A, 21st Va. ; 
T. W. Pope, Co. G, 31st Ga.; J. A. Page, Co. A, Nelson's Va. Bat.; A. S. 
Gardner, Co. A, Nelson's Va. Bat.; W. Haggard, Co. B, Nelson's Va. 
Bat. ; Johnson Suit, Co. G, 5th Ala. ; W. Dancy, Co. G, i8th N. C. ; L. T. 
McKee, Co. G, 42d Miss. ; John Langford, Co. E, 60th Ga. ; W. B. Watts, 
Co. C, 1st S. C. ; R. Seldon, Co. H, 9th Va. ; J. M. Royster, Co. C, 47th 
N. C ; Capt. J. T. Lane, Co. G. 4th Ga. ; L. Grigg, Co. K, 43d N. C. ; 
Capt. G. M. Allbright, Co. F, 53d N. C. ; Serg. G. R. Bowles, Co. F, 42d 
Va. ; H. Gossell, 53d N. C. ; H. H. West, Co. A, 3d N. C. ; T. J. Dunn, 
Co. E, i8th Miss.; Daniel Kelley, Co. B, 3d N. C. ; Robert Reeves, Co. 
G, 27th Ga. ; W. H. Powell, Co. I, 3d S. C. ; M. Sullivan, Co. K, 6th La. ; 
Corp. P. K. Williams, Co. E, 2d Ga. ; S. P. Mabry, Co. G, 6th Ala. ; David 
Abricht, Co. A, 7th La.; H. D. Howell. Co. H, 26th Ala.; John R. Lang- 
ford, Co. F, loth Ga.; E. F. Ard, Co. G, 15th S. C. ; Riley Davidson, Co. 
G, 4th Tex.; E. Power, Co. K, 6th Ga. ; W. T. Goode. Co. K. 2d Miss.; 
Henry London, Co. D, 15th N. C. : A. M. Paget, Co. M. 7th S. C. ; Henry 

C. Baker, Co. H, 30th N. C. ; William A. Parker, Co. H, 4th Tex. ; Joseph 
Lahart, Co. C, i6th Miss. ; A. V. Kennedy, Co. H, Flampton's Legion, S. 
C. ; T. J. Rountree, Co. K, 7th S. C ; D. M. Kirkley, Co. G, 2d S. C. ; 
M. A. Gammel, Co. G, 3d Ark. ; M. T. Strickland, Co. G, 50th Ga. ; Aquila 
Todd, Co. F, 5th N. C; J. Lane, Co. F, 27th N. C. ; R. R. Hughes, Co. 

D, 50th La. ; John Bonds, Co. B, 20th N. C. ; Oscar D. Sharp, Co. H, ist 
N. C; A. Thigson, Co. B, 3d N. C. ; A. N. Anslen. Co. F, Sth La.; M. 
M. Cottonginn, Co. A, 2d Miss.; John Boles, Co. B, 48th N. C. ; J. Mc- 
Neal, Co. G, 8th Fla. ; Joseph Stacy, Co. F, 27th N. C. ; H. D. Lewis, ist 
N. C. ; William Harman. 37th Va. ; L. Reeves, Co. B, 3d N. C. ; A. Boyd, 
Co. C. 38th Ga.; J. McNain, Co. C. 31st Ga. ; R. M. Brown, Co. B, 2d S. 
C. : John Leyden, 7th La.; Jacob Boger, 20th N. C. ; B. W. Bell, Co. K, 
1st N. C. ; E. H. Robinson, Co. G, 14th N. C. ; Serg. Henry J. Owen, Co. 
L 14th Tenn. ; Charles D. Maden, Co. G, 12th S. C. ; L. S. Philips, Co. G, 
3d S. C. ; W. E. Lans, Co. E, 23d N. C. ; Serg. August Owen. Co. G, igth 
G. ; Bernard O. L. Young, 23d Ga. ; John Hawkins, Co. A, 38th Ga. ; W. 
H. McPherson, Co. D, soth Ga. ; W. P. Hamby,- 22d S. C. ; Elihu Adams, 
3d Ark.; George H. Cowan, Co. H, 3d N. C. ; C. Davis, Co. D, 5th Fla.; 
William Hartley, Co. C, 6th Ga. ; Peter Wimbish, Co. L 24th Va. ; Josej)h 
H. Hicklin, 6th S. C. ; G. L. Eason, Co. H, 15th Ala. ; J. L. Moss, Co. G, 
61 St Ga. ; J. B. G.rantsham, Co. G, 6th Fla.; Nathaniel Perry. Co. F, 22d 
N. C. ; John Murphy, Co. E, 27th Ga. ; George Knupp, 7th Va. ; Thomas- 
Bryant, Co. B, 14th N. C. ; B. M. Stedman, Co. G, 48th N. C. ; Lieut. 

Benjamin Anderson, Co. D, 19th Va. ; Fitske, Co. I, 12th Ala.; J. 

R. White, Co H, Sth Fla.; Marks Henry, Co. B, 23d N. C. ; Allen Jones,. 
Co. D, i8th Ga. ; G. W. Myers, Co. B, i4^h N. C. ; J. B. Creamer, Co. G, 
27th Ga. ; Peter Box, 26th Ga. ; James Ray, 3d N. C. ; A. W. Ponrick, 
Co. F, 4th Ga. ; John A. Michaels, 27th Ga. ; James Landron, Co. E, 6th 
Ga. : William T. West, Co. K, 5i.st Ga. ; W. J. Walter, Co. G, 23d N. C. ; 
J. P. Conaugh, Co. T, 17th S. C. : William F. Biggs. Co. K, 2d Miss.;. 



APPENDIX. 401 

Albert Womack, Co. G, 48th N. C. ; VVyatt S. Miles, 3cl Ark.; Allen T. 
Demming, Co. D. 13th Ga. ; William T. Gill, Co. D, 30th N. C. ; John 
Wallace. Co. G, i8th S. C. ; John Brooks, Co. E, 18th Ga. ; R. J. Hestely, 
Co. G, I2th Ala.; John Stephens, Co. B, 51st Ga ; Samuel Jackson, Co. 
H, 49th Ga. ; John Nickles, Co. I, 3d Ala. ; John K. Mason, Co. K, 226. 
S. C. ; J. W. Rintz, 13th Ala.; J. A. Bowers, Co. I, 15th S. C. ; J. A. 
Moore, Co. D, 6th Ga. ; J. L. Evans, Co. B, 51st Ga. ; J. H. Hargrowe, 
Co. D, I2th N. C. ; M. Mark, Co. A, 23d N. C. ; Hints Monk, Co. A, 24th 
N. C. ; Benjainin Bangston, Co. D, 6th Ga. ; John McHarper, Co. H, 2d 
Fla. ; F. C. Hernicle, Co. D, i6th Miss. ; Robert Harris, Co. C, 2d Miss. ; 
E. T. Shiver, Co. A, 3Sth N. C. ; Daniel Bird, Co. C, 5th N. C. ; David 
Jones, Co. E, 51st Ga. ; W. McCloud, Co. E, 6ist Ga. ; William Eitson, 
Co. H, 30th Ga. ; William G. Coleman, Co. G, 60th Ga. ; Alfred Green, 
Co. C, 33d Ga.; N. T. Nix, Co. F, 50th Ga. ; A. D. Kelley, 26th Ala.; 
James M. Johns, Co. F, 5th Fla.; James McGee, Co. H, ist N. C. ; Benja- 
min Stembridge, Co. D, 6th Ga. ; William Hill, Co. A, 26th Ala. ; Joseph 
Jerningan, — S. C. ; Joseph Stewart, Co. E, 34th S. C. ; James Hagan, 
Co. C, loth Ala.; A. D. Collins, Co. H, 17th S. C. ; John Michaels, Co. 
E, I2th Ala. ; Charles G. Williams, Co. G, 8th La. ; Henry Miller, Co. C, 
3d Md. ; G. R. Roberts, 32d Miss.; Manning Gisbot, Co. G, 50th Ga. ; 
Ambrose Blanton, Co. G, 15th S. C. ; R. Stewart, 14th N. C. ; John C. 
Young, Co. A, i8th S. C. ; Charles R. Bartley, Co. B, 12th N. C. ; Solomon 
Tillyville, Co. E, ist S. C. ; N. T. Griffin, Co. B, 3d S. C. ; William S. 
Legrist, Co. B, 3d S. C. ; S. J. Jones, Co. A. 6th Ala. ; F. M. Tuck, Co. 
C, — S. C. ; John Sidty, Co. F, 7th S. C. ; Baxter Smith, Co. K, 8th Fla. ; 
Lieut. E. M. Penn, 22d S. C. ; H. W. Crumby, Co. C, 5th Ala. ; Joseph 
Budd, Co. K, Hampton's Legion, S. C. ; Otho Fransch, Co. F, 50th Ga. ; 
J. S. Robertson, Co. H, 26th Ala.; William P. Hunt, Co. B, 12th N. C. ; 
David Sloan, Co. F, 50th Ga. ; James Shines, Co. F, 51st Ga. ; Jacob 
Hicks, Co. F, 2ist N. C. ; Emanuel Roberts, Co. E. loth La.; J. H. Home, 
Co. C, 3d N. C. ; M. Easteds, Co. E, 27th S. C. ; Serg. Alex Raper, Co. 
H, I2th Ala. ; J. H. Hammerick, 6th Ala. ; Lieut. Col. T. S. Watkins, 22d 
S. C. ; Raisin Pitts, 6th Ala. ; John Murick, T7th C. V. ; J. A. Davis, Co. 
L 3d Ala. ; Alex Potter, 12th Ala. ; Andrew Shuman, Co. E, 50th Ga. ; 
Emanuel Sherman, Co. E, 50th Ga. ; David F. Rooker, Co. A, 5th N. C. ; 
Alfred D. Miller, Co. K, 4th N. C. ; C. Churchill ; John R. O. Steen, 50th 
Ga. ; Barney Castel, North Ga. Vol. ; J. J. McGahery, Providence, Ala. 
William R. Wiley, Co. F, 50th Ga. ; Charles Trubick, Co. F, soth Ga. 
William Sourbro, Co. I, ist N. C. ; J. M. Summeall, Co. G, SOth Ga. 
Richard Smith, Co. E, 14th S. C. ; G. N. Daniel, Co. E, 19th Ga. ; J. N 
Hill, Co. K, 14th N. C. ; John Register, Big Creek, Dale County, Ala. 
J. E. Johnson, Mississippi Tigers ; one hundred and fifty-eight unknown. 
Buried on west side in the cemetery at Frederick ; boards up. 

Thirty unknown. Buried on Richard Mumford's mountain lot, along 
the hillside south of Sol Houpt's house ; were buried under wood, stone, 
brush, and logs ; bones scattered about. 

Benjamin G. Davis, of Barboursville, W. Va. ; Harvev Wilson, of Nel- 
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402 THE STORY OF CAMP CHASE. 

son County, Va., Co. D, 8th Va. Cav. ; Robert Mitchell, Co. B, 8th Va. 
€av. ; H. L. Moore, Co. B, 8th Va. Cav. ; G. R. Stockton, Co. I, 8th Va. 
Cav. ; Jasper Russ, — N. C. Buried in M. E. graveyard in Middletovi^n. 

One unknown. Buried in Wash Horine's corner field, along the eld 
Hagerstown road, southwest corner of field and six steps northeast of 
a large cherry tree. 

Dr. Braddock, one unknown. Buried on Gaver's mountain lot, near 
Mrs. Main's fence and at west end of a trench of disinterred United 
States soldiers. 

Seventeen unknown in two trenches. Buried on east side of Mrs. Main's 
farm and fence and midway between stump and high rocks. 

One unknown. Buried on south side of road and Mrs. Main's fence, 
thirty feet below a white oak tree; buried under brush and log. 

One unknown. Buried on south side of road and Mrs. Main's fence and 
twenty feet east of a rocky bluff and a large white oak tree. 

Three unknown. Buried in northeast corner of Palmer's old locust 
field. 

Two unknown. Buried along the south side of Palmer's old locust 
field; bones scattered about; were not buried at all. 

Three unknown. Buried on Green's mountain lot. two hundred yards 
south of Key's house ; bones exposed. 

Ten unknown. Buried in southeast corner of George J. Smith's moun- 
tain field. 

Two unknown. Buried in corner of Solomon Houpt's lot, one hundred 
and fifty yards southwest of his house. 

Three unknown. Buried in Solomon PToupt's woods, south of his fence; 
bones exposed. 

Fifty unknown. Buried on Daniel Rentz's farm ; bones exposed. 

H. L. Swiler, Co. D, 7th La. ; Capt. J. W. Morris, i6th Va. Cav. ; Lieut. 
S. M. Peedro, i6th Va. Cav. ; J. R. Woolridge, Co. C, 144th Va. ; James 
D. Webb, Co. D, sth Ala.; O. Hales, Co. F, sist Ga. ; L. Pence, Co. F, 
6o!h Ga.; T. J. Ivey, Co. E, 31st Ga. ; G. Lowe, Co. D, sth La.; J. W. 
Bachus, Co. A, 12th Ga. ; E. H. Lucass, Co. F, 14th Va. : S. Patten, Co. 
G, 31st Ga.; B. H. Fuller. Co. D, 12th Ga. ; W. A. Davis, Co. A, 12th Ga. ; 
H. W. Lynch, Co. F, 13th Ga. : George Cross, of North Carolina ; W. J. 
Bourn, Co. F, 12th Ga. ; G. McClung, Co. K. 14th Va. Cav.; W. Allen, 
Co. G, Sth Va. Cav. Buried along the west side in the cemetery at Fred- 
erick; boards up and graves all in good condition. 

Three unknown. Buried on hill on Smith's land at mountain house. 

B. F. Manny, Sist Ga. ; John Pratt, north end of second row; R. W. 
McSparran, of Ivey Depot, Albemarle County, Va., Co. K, 19th Va., died 
September 21, 1862; Capt. A. A Holland, of Danville, Va., died Septembei 
22, 1862; six unknown. Buried in the common near the academy in 
Middletown. 

Dr. Bradox, of South Carolina ; Thomas Sander, Co. G, loth Ga. ; Capt. 
N. Reeder, Co. H, i6th Ga. ; E. H. A., — Ga. ; Benjamin Matthews, Co. 
F, i6th Ga. ; William Smith, Co. B, i6th Ga. ; Thomas Hobbs, Co. K, i6th 



APPENDIX. 403 

Ga. ; Benjamin F. Gillmore, Co. F, i6th Ga. ; ]\I. Grubne, Co. C, i6th Ga. 
James Light, Co. I, i6th Ga. ; John Args, Co. C, ist Ga. Legion; J. J 
McWilliams, Co. C, ist Ga. Legion; John Dunlap, Co. D, 15th N. C. ; J 
L. Russell, Co. G, iSth N. C. ; Ayel Batten, Co. I, isth N. C. ; J. R. Gaar. 
Co. C, 1st Ga. Legion; J. R. Argo, Co. C, ist Ga. Legion; A. J. Bice, Co 
F, 1st Ga. Legion; Victor W. Mayott, Co. G, 4th Va. ; Manillas B. John 
son, Co. G, 4th Va. ; J. A. Farmer, Co. E, i6th Va. ; R. F. Moore, Co. F, 
ISth Va. ; B. F. C, Co. F, 2d Va. ; ten unknown. Buried close along the 
fence on west side of woods back of graveyard in Burkettsville ; graves 
in good condition and boards still here. 

Names and Burial Places Reported Since the Foregoing Was Put in 
Type, — Reference (page 13) : Capt. James E. Alartin removed to the 
family burial lot of Hon. James H. Grove, Hagerstown. "Joh" Newton, 
H. H. A., S. C. v., died July 6, 1863." Square and compass and the letter 
"G" in angles of the square upon a board placed at the head of his grave. 
Buried in Bowery Woods on Springfield Farm, near Williamsport, Wash- 
ington County. Removed by Friendship Lodge No. 84. A. F. and A.' M , of 
Hagerstown, to the cemetery at Williamsport. Head and foot stones 
put up and inscribed with the same marks and letters found upon the 
board where the body was first buried. "Thomas W. Metcaff. of Natchez, 
Miss." Buried by the side of Colonel Lumkin in Presbyterian Cemetery, 
Hagerstown. ]\Iyrtle planted on both graves. 

Summary of the Number IdcntiHed from Each State, and Those by 
Names, Letters, Location, etc. — Louisiana, 69; Mississippi, 61; Virginia, 
106; Georgia, 210; North Carolina, 119; South Carolina, 71; Arkansas, 
10; Texas, 9; Tennes.see, 6; Alabama, 54; Florida, 10; Maryland, 2; iden- 
tified by name. 23; by batteries, 5; P. S. S., 63; unknown, 2,481. Total, 
3,239 (as by this report made Ma}' i. 1869). 

MONUMENT AT SHEPHERDSTOWN. 

Inscription on the monument : "Erected to the memory of our Confeder- 
ate dead by the Shepherdstown Southern Memorial Association June 6. 
1870. True patriots. A nation's tears embalm their memory. To the 
imknown dead. Though nameless, their deeds are not forgotten. We lie 
here in obedience to the commands of our sovereign States.'' 

The nionument is fifteen feet high. 

List of Confederate Dead at Shepherdstown. 

Boyd, Lieut. H. M., Co C, 5th Tex. 
Mercer, W. H., La. Guard Art. 
McKee, John. 2d S. C. 
March, Rev. E. L., 31st La. Vol. 
Cook, W. A.. Co. G, 31st La. 
Ireland. W., Co. C, 60th La. 
Edwards, J., Co. H, 2d N. C. 
Wilkerspoon, T. J., North Carolina. 



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Newall, W. J.. Co. K, 12th Ala 

Hood, D. S., Louisiana. 

Riggs, J., Co. F, 4th Tex. 

Gordan, J., Co. F, 48th N. C. 

Fatten, W. D., Co. C. ist N. C. 

Barnhart, A., 20th N. C. Regt. 

Durank, E. D. B., 26th La. Vol. 

Willis, Pittsylvania County, Va. 

Fountain, Corp M. J., 13th La. Vol. 

Goroin. T. J.. 2d S. C. Rifles. 

Spohr, H., gth La. Vol. 

Davenport, Lieut. Charles E., Charleston, S C. 

Crim, T. L., ist S. C. 

Agnew, J. C, 6th S. C. 

Banks, M.. Co. C, Hampton's Legion. 

Tucker, J , 21st La. 

James, Lieut. John. 17th Miss. Vol. Died at Sharpsburg, Md 

Ferrell, S. K., Louisiana. 

Jones, Serg. S. 

Stone, J. B. 

McOnon, J., Co. C. 12th La 

Rinehart. J., Co. B, 59th N. C. 

Daniels, W. B.. Co. C. 5Sth N. C. 

Williams, Lieut. N. J . Co. K, 3d N. C. Inf. 

Feamster, J. B., nth Miss. Regt. 

Ganty, S., Co. D, i6th S. C. 

Wilson, Lieut. C. 

Harvey, Lieut. W. H., Co. H, 21st Va. 

Ogletree, G. A., Co. I, 13th La. 

Gay, John, 31st La. 

Connell, R. P., Co. I, soth La. 

Layton, Capt. R. E., Co F, 2d Miss. 

Jebbo, William. 

Easton, C, Co. E, 33d N. C. 

Williams, John, Rockbridge County, Va. Died August 12, 1S77. 

Holliday, E. P., 5th N. C 

McBride, William F., Co. C. 3d La. 

Thompson, S. J., Co. K, 5th N. C. 

Elliott, J. M.. Huntsville, Ala. 

Rattler, A. 

Slaughter. M B., nth La. 

Slandiffer, W. E., Louisiana. 

Mabin, M. G., iSth La. 

Lemon, Alex, Co. B, 2d Va. Inf. 

Johnson, J. Newman. Born December 27, 1832 ; died July 4, 1864. 

Waters, P., Co. A, 8th La. 

Jones, Isaac T., 50th La. 

Hoffler, G. M., 4th Tex. 



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jVIiller, Collins, White's Battalion. Killed near Winchester, Va., Sep- 
tember 3, 1864, aged twenty years. 

Harris, George W., Co F, ist Va. Cav., Shcpherdstown, W. Va. 

Pratt, J. H., 30th Va. 

Farnham, N. L., Co. D, 5th Fla. 

Thompson, F. M., ist La. 

Hood, D. T., 5th Ala. Art. 

Warburton, G. T., Park's Artillery. 

Smith, W. T., Co. I, La. 

Kipley, Andrew, Co. I, 14th N. C. 

Williams, Lieut., Black Horse Cavalry 

Rogers, C. R., South Carolina. 

Hoey, Edward P., Louisiana Guaid Artillery. 

Lee, Capt., South Carolina. 

Robison, J., Brook's Artillery. 

Anderson, Serg. Map, 5th Fla. 

Irvin, Louisiana. 

Lyon, Lieut C. E., Co. A, 48th Va. 

Perry, J. M., Louisiana. 

Willis, Alabama. 

Baudy, J., 21st Miss. 

Vaughan, W. 

Tew, O., Co. C, 2d N. C. 

Lee, J. 

Vespot, A. T. 

Smith, Capt. H. J., Co. D, Hampton's Legion. 

Deakins, J., Union District, S. C. 

Hornbuckler, T. W., 13th N. C. 

Eason, W , Co. D, 2d N. C. 

Howell, William, Co. K, 19th Miss. 

Cotton, Capt. R. W., ist Tex. Vol. Died October 30, 1862. 

Smith, Conrad C, Co. B, 2d Va. Regt. Born April 5, 1819; died No- 
vember 14, 1886. 

Hawn, David, Co F, ist Va. Cav. Died July 2, 1900. 

Younty, George R., Co. F, ist Va. Cav. Died January i, 1885. 

Robison, James B., Co. H, 2d Va. Cav. Born March 27, 1837; died 
June 22, 1885. 

Grigsby, Capt. R , Co. A, 8th La. 

Monaghan, Col. William, 6th La. 

Parham, Dr. William S. Killed at Sharpsburg September 17, 1862. 

Overton, W. G. 

Porter, Eli, N. C. Troops. 

Roup, George L., Co. C, Sth Va., Supt. Stanibon, Va. 

Clark, C. M., Co. F, sth Fla. 

Tanner, Paddy. 

Wright, Amassa P., Co. C, 21st Va. 

Allen, J., Co K, 6th N. C. 



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Miller, A., Co. B, 52d N. C. 

Wallack, Capt. D., Co. A. 22d La. 

Thompson, Serg. 

Leopold, Andrew, Maryland. A noted guerrilla along the Potomac. 

Burke. Capt. Redman, Jefferson County, W. Va. 

Thompson, B., 2d N. C. 

Taylor, J. W., Jenkins's Brigade. 

Graceby, J. M.. ist Va. Cav. Died July 6, 1876. 

Harlin, Serg. J. 

York, S. M., Co. K, 8th Miss. 

Beazeley. Lieut. James A., Co. C, oth Va. Cav., C. S. A. Born in 
Spottsylvania County, Va , July i, 1833; killed at Boonsboro, Md., Sep- 
tember 15, 1862. 

Douglas, Gen. Henry Kyd, one of General Lee's staff officers, is also 
buried in Shepherdstown Cemetery. 

Morgan, Col. William A., ist Va. Cav., C. S. A. Died in 1899 

Hill, George F., ist Va. Cav. Died at Harrisonburg, Va., Dec 18, 1864. 

Also fifty-eight unknown are buried in the same ground in the Shepherds- 
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